Right, I definitely thought of this issue. To resolve it, there will be a floor of 1 pixel = 1 post. That way, it'll never become so small as to be unusable.
Horizontal scrolling will be implemented as needed. On Jul 23, 2009, at 9:47 PM, Caius Durling wrote: > > On 22 Jul 2009, at 19:27, Arthus Erea wrote: > >> 2) Size the timeline dynamically. Instead of having each post being 1 >> pixel, have the timeline always be 100% of the container. The width >> per post would be calculated appropriately. > > > I like this solution best personally. Its something I've thought about > before when setting up a new blog, and wondered why it isn't done > dynamically, then went on my merry way and never thought about it > again. > > My only worry is that it would become harder and harder to select a > subset of posts the more you have if it just sits at 100% width, each > pixel ends up representing more and more posts each time you publish. > (I'm not sure if the current one does this already, but) If there's > more posts than there are pixels, make the timeline scroll > horizontally to select more posts. > > This is how horizontal timelines in iMovie, Quicktime Player, > Screenflow, Final Cut (and many non-apple/mac apps I'm sure) work. > > C > --- > Caius Durling > [email protected] > +44 (0) 7960 268 100 > http://caius.name/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
