Very nice. I just recently put together letter-based navigation for an app, though each "letter request" uses ajax to fetch the appropriate results. The complete set, though, is something over 3000 items and growing. All the same, I think I'll write a quick script to dump everything to listmenu and see what the performance is like.
Nice work! On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Jack Killpatrick <j...@ihwy.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Today we released the iHwy listmenu plugin, which allows you to convert a > basic 'list' of HTML elements (UL, OL or any set of child elements) into a > snazzy dropdown menu with letter-based navigation (ie: A | B | C | etc). > > The plugin is very easy to use. In most cases all you will have to do is > create the list of elements and then use one line of jQuery code to convert > the list into the navigation menu. When a user hovers over a navigation > letter in the menu a submenu appears containing all of the items from the > list that start with that letter. > > The items in the submenu are arranged in nicely balanced columns. If the > list was an ordered (OL) list, numbering starts at 1 for each letter and is > maintained across the columns (top to bottom, left to right) for that > letter. There are options to control the number of columns and the 'gutter' > space between them, among other things. > > The HTML generated by the plugin is designed with CSS styling in mind and a > starter css file is included to help implement the plugin. > > We tuned this plugin for speed and tested it in FF 3.x (Win/Mac), IE > 6/7/8rc, Opera (latest), Safari (Mac 3.2.1, Win 4beta) and Google Chrome > (Win) using jQuery 1.3.2 and 1.2.6 (1.3.2 is faster, probably because of > sizzle). > > This is great plugin for big product lists, address books, contact lists, > etc. It makes a hard to navigate plain old list into something really > compact and very easy to visually skim that's only visible when you need it. > > Full info: > > http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx > > Demos: > > http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/demos/current/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx > > This project grew out of the jquery listnav plugin that we released in late > 2008. We'll be releasing a new rev of that today, too. > > Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy the plugin! > > Thanks, > Jack > > > twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ihwy_jack > > >
