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Turning pages in the IHT website
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While reading my usual MacOS rumour sites this morning I came on to this article about Bush and his iPod. While the article itself isn't very interesting I did get very impressed about the "Ajaxish" (sorry about the buzzword drop here, it's just the best way to describe it) way of turning pages. If your mouse hovers over the right hand side the "Next page" widget lights up, if you click the next page comes up without refreshing the whole browser. If you hover over the left side the same goes for turning to the previous page. Very nice! Anyone know how this holds up accessibility wise? TrackBackBy looking at http://www.iht.com/js/ihtArticle.js, it just seems to measure the (pixel) height of the article and dynamically dividing it into screenfuls. So the content is all there from the beginning, it's not Ajax, just plain old DHTML :P Quite smooth still. --Jari Aarniala, April 18, 2005 06:16 AM
An oldy, but a goody :) This is the work of John Weir of smokinggun design: http://www.smokinggun.com/ --PA, April 18, 2005 07:51 AM
As far as accesibility goes, the "Back to Start of Article" link does not work in Firefox on Linux. --Marcus Ahnve, April 18, 2005 08:13 AM
Jari, Yes, I figured it wasn't actually Ajax. But I imagine you would need to use Ajax if the content is so large it cannot practically be loaded in the same request. For example, imagine a blog with the same interface to all of it's content. Oh, well, just an engineer looking for things to use his latest shiny tool on. :-) --Jon Tirsen, April 18, 2005 08:19 AM
The entire article is hidden in a bunch of "div" tags; reading it in lynx confirms that it looks just fine. --Simon Stewart, April 18, 2005 02:59 PM
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