Hi Bauwe, I think it were great if - when hovering any of the pictograms in the overview - a corresponding title or summary could be rendered in some "title" container, e.g. right below or above the pictograms.
Together with some nice jQuery transitions, I think TiddlyPictoWiki would make for a highly attractive menu or navigation. Just as TiddlyPictoWiki does now, imagine your tiddlywiki to start with nothing but this kind of pictographic collection. Upon click, the display zooms in on an associated content-tiddler or tiddler-category (whereas tiddlers were associated via tags or fields). Upon selecting an element from the initial pictographic overview there are a few possible alternatives to keep on navigating the pictographic landscape: 1) The most simple seems a "home" button (or bar) on any of the screen- edges, whereas clicking on it will redisplay the initial pictographic overview. This could also be a "back" button displayed in any of the corners of the "content box" corresponding to the currently selected pictogram. 2) Slightly more sophisticated would be to shrink all pictographs to a predefined side of the screen into either a row or a column, in which the currently selected item was somehow highlighted (via some border or background). Clicking on an additional "home" button on that row/ column would redisplay the initial full-size pictographs. TiddlyPictoWiki already works a bit like that only just that it doesn't shrink "non-active" pictograms, doesn't display a related content tiddler and that a left or right column, or a top-row are not yet an option. 3) Quite sophisticated in terms of (jQuery) animation would be to arrange all pictograms in a centered rectangular grid (of which not all cells necessarily had to be in use). If a pictogram were clicked, one could then - depending on their initial position in the grid - slide+shrink all non-selected pictograms to a position on the screen edges corresponding to their position in the initial grid... while at the same time zoom in on the content tiddler corresponding to the selected pictogram. Clicking on any of the shrinked pictograms sitting on a screen edge would zoom in on that while shrinking (or fading) the previously selected pictrogram to its corresponding spot on the edge. Again, a "home" button would redisplay the large initial grid. All these ideas seem quite intriguing ...with less of a focus on a pictographic library than on what to actually do with pictograms. I love the potential of this stuff! Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" 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/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
