Hi, Following on from the interesting pagination thread yesterday, I was wondering about best practice in using sliders (e.g. like the jQuery UI slider mentioned http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Slider), particularly in relation to orientation.
For a project I'm working on I'm considering using one to scroll through a list of messages (e.g. tweets), sorted by time. The tweets will display vertically, with the latest at the top. I want to limit the amount that display at any one time, but provide an option to see older ones, and I was thinking that a slider *might* work quite well in this case. In your opinion, if you have vertically arranged information, should the slider also display vertically (e.g. with "newer" at the top, "older" at the bottom)? In this case I think it might be confusing to have a horizontal slider -- not just in terms of there being a mismatch between the orientation of -the tweets and the slider, but also how you would represent the timeline -- e.g. would the slider need to be to the right to start, but show older tweets as you moved it to the left? Just interested if anyone else has any thoughts or come across this problem. Cheers, David -- David Little w: www.littled.net t: twitter.com/djlittle ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
