[Omaha.pm] Fishing for GUI ideas...

[Dan Linder]

You might look into AJAX a bit.  I would think that you could set it up to
get more data for the left or right side when a certain point was reached.
Much like Google Maps does -- except yours would only send strings of text,
not image blocks.

Dan

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:

> So Mario and I wrote this tool in Perl that kicks out HTML:
>
>  http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/~jhannah/RT386/demo.html<http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/%7Ejhannah/RT386/demo.html>
>
> Click the pretty colors.
>
> I have this crazy notion of some sort of GUI where:
>
> - Users can seamlessly scroll left and right hundreds of thousands /
> millions of letters without having to stop and jump to another page.
> - I can add parallel rows of ~300 letters which can be clicked to show /
> hide them. But somehow the current horizontal expand/collapse will still
> work. Overlapping rows would magically bump out of each others way.
> - Users could add their own notes at certain places.
>
> Given that all this data is unpredictable, with tens of thousands of
> clickable things in the same dataset...
>
> How would YOU write that GUI?
>
> Stumped,
>
> j
> http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah
>
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