I haven’t had time to delve into the FW 5 scriptaculous actions yet
but is this sort of sideways shuffling thing doable? Possibly with
the Carousel action? http://www.artisantalent.com/
I experimented with hand-coding essentially the same effect with
scripty/proto which worked OK but I’m hoping I don’t need to go that
route in this case.
This looks like something for Weaver’s MooTools Action, since it’s a
very nice use of the Accordion layout model.
You could do this with the Scripty stuff in Freeway, just need to
turn the layout on its side. To be clear, it would be difficult to do
this in Carousel, probably impossible given the way it works under
the hood.
Walter
On May 1, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Todd wrote:
I haven’t had time to delve into the FW 5 scriptaculous actions yet
but is this sort of sideways shuffling thing doable? Possibly with
the Carousel action? http://www.artisantalent.com/
I experimented with hand-coding essentially the same effect with
scripty/proto which worked OK but I’m hoping I don’t need to go that
route in this case.
But, more to the point, the Mootools Suite can only handle vertical accordions in its current incarnation.
Like Prototype, most anything is possible with some slick coding. The layout becomes a bit of a nightmare, as ‘width’ is a totally different animal than ‘height’. Height, we are not so concerned about text wrap or content size, as everything is neatly concealed with ‘overflow:hidden’. With width, there needs to be a ‘holding’ container which encloses the actual content. So the content is not what shrinks, but rather this ‘holding’ container with the same ‘overflow:hidden’ attribute.
Although I would like to add this, it is not something anyone is likely to see in the near future.