Stefano, Georg, Brian, thank you all for your comments!
I think I'll explore Brian's suggestion about graying out the filtered
out facet values (those with zero counts), as that requires a lot less
work than supporting animation properly :-)
There are other kinds of facet. I have been pointed to this page for
some examples:
http://www.endless.com/b/242169011/ref=topnav_sd_wm_b
(They also go with graying out zero count facet values.)
And David Karger has mentioned wanting a tag cloud facet...
Regarding the check boxes in Stefano's message, I've been trying to
think of ways to make them automatically adapt to the background of the
hosting page. Right now they are solid images, so they simply can't
adapt. Translucent PNGs would be better, but are still limited. I'd
avoid using <canvas> as that is costly.
David
Brian Rossmajer wrote:
> Looks very good.
>
> And I think both those caveats can be handled to a large degree in page
> design -- it's nice to have the choice now!
>
> I like Stefano's and Georg's suggestions, too in terms of lessening the
> abruptness of the transitions. Another thought might be, rather than
> removing the facet items entirely, they could be faded but still visible
> -- that way each facet always takes the same amount of space.
>
> Thanks!
> Brian
>
>
>
> David Huynh wrote:
>
>> Exhibit tends to make your web pages look imposing with all the borders
>> and scrollbars on the facets. Boxy, utilitarian, rugged, not so calm and
>> graceful.
>>
>> I've just added support for dropping those borders and scrollbars (by
>> setting ex:scroll="false"). With this feature you can achieve a more
>> stylized page like this
>> http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/publications.html
>> which looks more like a web page than a web app.
>>
>> There are two caveats:
>> - A non-scrolling facet shouldn't have too many values (choices), or it
>> will take up too much space.
>> - Changing selection in one facet causes the other facets to update,
>> shrinking or growing in height, potentially causing loss of visual context.
>>
>> Comments are greatly appreciated!
>>
>> David
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