Comments on: Comments on 3349

Post number 3349

kokogiak — Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:06:25 -0800

Building A Great DHTML Chaser -- by Aaron Boodman. I've built one or two of these - what Aaron calls "Chasers" - you know, the little floating layer that follows you on a web page as you scroll. I was never too thrilled with the outcome for various reasons, but Aaron really put in extra efforts to resolve DHTML animation issues and came up with a fairly slick bit of code. A sample can be seen here. Whether you think they're annoying or useful, the based-on-refresh-rate animation info is still fairly useful.

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:42:50 -0800

Excuse me if I sound like a DHTM-illiterate, but how does that compare to MetaFilter's own Floating Menu, or is that one created by some haughey.com-exclusive secret-formula? Or has everyone forgotten about the Floating Menu, and now that I've reminded him, Matt's going to update it and throw my sorry-ass unupdated-for-a-month weblog off the list? (Wait! Wait! I'm just redesigning!!! I'll start using Blogger!!! Aaaarrrggghhh!)

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:39:05 -0800

Um... didn't know Metafilter _had_ a floating menu. Where does one go to see it?

By: dangerman

dangerman — Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:45:52 -0800

The floaty menu is an option that can be found under "customize" in the top menu.

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:09:27 -0800

Aha. Well, it's bizarre that I'd choose this subject as my first Link Post. No offense was intended to the author(s) of MetaFilter's floaty menu.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:09:49 -0800

Be warned, the MeFi floater doesn't seem to like browsers past version 4, especially on the Mac.

By: PWA_BadBoy

PWA_BadBoy — Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:22:54 -0800

Works fine for IE5 and 5.5 on PC... And I *think* (don't flame if I'm wrong plz) it's canned code. i.e. If you view source the MeFi floaty menu, you'll see there's some comments there and that it's been written by someone specifically for ColdFusion-powered pages. I'm not trying to detract from any of Matt's skill. It's not whether you know how to do it, but how you use it. :) And I'm sure Matt knows how anyway.... just too lazy like me to write the script out... why reinvent the wheel?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:49:54 -0800

I was too lazy, yeah. Does this WebTechniques floaty thing work in Mozilla/NN 6?

By: alan

alan — Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:31:22 -0800

No, doesn't work in Mozilla.

By: katelevy

katelevy — Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:55:48 -0800

I't s WebReference, not WebTechniques. :)

By: aboodman

aboodman — Tue, 12 Dec 2000 07:28:38 -0800

can't find the meFi floating menu... was it removed from the preferences screen?