amazon.com's home page has a cover flow like thing that rotates products. It has forward and reverse buttons. I haven't tried to see how they implemented it, but I thought I'd mention, in case it could be used as a resource.
Chuck At 8:51 PM +0000 11/1/07, AwayBBL wrote: >my wife had an idea to just make the whole thing circular, keep >spinning until something of interest is in view, then onclick stop. I >think I'd go dizzy :) > >On Nov 1, 4:43 pm, AwayBBL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> obviously it's not really intended to allow people to fat finger the >> ones in the back (it'd be slick if we could swipe left and right, but >> iphone safari doesn't support it). yep, a side effect of limiting the >> max size is that now the other icons are smaller, thereby causing more >> "space" between them >> >> On Nov 1, 4:37 pm, Randy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Seems smoother/quicker. It would seem this would derive the most >> > functionality in small spaces, hence profile view. There seems to be more >> > space on the left/right of the center icon now, further >>scrunching up icons >> > in the back, making it even more challenging to tap one of those. >> > -=Randy >> >> > On 11/1/07 1:31 PM, "AwayBBL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > > Randy, >> >> > > I went ahead and made a change to limit the maximum size of my images, >> > > seems to be a little quicker (but would probably look poor now on >> > > landscape mode)... >> >> > >http://www.myhip.com/flow3.html >> >> > > On Nov 1, 4:12 pm, Randy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> Also, If limiting the amount of icons in the back, you could >>add an arrow >> > >> link on the left and right to 'jump' a page at a time. >> > >> -=Randy >> >> > >> On 11/1/07 1:06 PM, "AwayBBL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >>> yeah, I agree, if I can figure out how to make the final size of the >> > >>> center image, the original size, that might make the best effect for >> > >>> the iphone. speed can be adjusted a little, but doing so causes less >> > >>> of a smooth flow >> >> > >>> On Nov 1, 3:57 pm, Randy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >>>> I was judging the size from within profile view in iPhone. >>I was thinking >> > >>>> that smaller graphics might help the speed a tad...or not >>scaling up so >> > >>>> much. >> > >>>> -=Randy >> >> > >>>> On 11/1/07 12:55 PM, "AwayBBL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >>>>> Randy, >> >> > >>>>> The images resize based on screen width. Thats probably >>why they look >> > >>>>> crappy on regular web browser (they are all in original iphone icon >> > >>>>> size, but get scaled in that script) >> >> > >>>>> On Nov 1, 2:54 pm, Randy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >>>>>> Looks great. Having slightly smaller, more >>iPhone/candy-like icons would >> > >>>>>> help the effect. It works great on my desktop and is ok >>on my iPhone. I >> > >>>>>> could see using this for many different applications. >>Looks just like >> > >>>>>> the >> > >>>>>> cover flow .mac uses for the carousel photos effect. >> > >>>>>> -=Randy >> >> > >>>>>> On 11/1/07 11:40 AM, "AwayBBL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >>>>>>> A person has a post going on making a mock cover flow >>interface (he >> > >>>>>>> started it for plain ol' web browsers). I've modified it >>a little to >> > >>>>>>> support iphone/touch... >> >> > >>>>>>> here's his original blog... >> >> > >>>>>>>http://www.adventuresinsoftware.com/blog/?p=104#comment-8579 >> >> > >>>>>>> He's given permission for folks to use it as they wish. >> >> > >>>>>>> and here's my mockup for a possible iphone style... >> >> > >>>>>>>http://www.myhip.com/flow.html >> >> > >>>>>>> Clearly mine needs a lot of work, but the code is fairly straight >> > >>>>>>> forward, and if you are interested, please make >>changes.- Hide quoted >> > >>>>>>> text >> > >>>>>>> - >> >> > >>>>>> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - >> >> > >>>> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - >> >> > >> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - >> >> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > >> - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. 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/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
