Googling "jquery column browser" lands several "finder" column
browsers, one of which is
http://www.christianyates.com/blog/jquery/finder-column-view-hierarchical-lists-jquery

Jack

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Chris Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had looked at Miller columns before but not seriously thought the approach
> would be useful until I saw Chang's excellent Tensor UI demo.
> I have created a working prototype UI based on Miller columns for iotaWave.
> These are my thoughts thus far:
> 1. For our purposes, we need N columns; where N is variable depending on
> use-case but could be up to 8 columns. Therefore the columns need to be
> re-sizable, minimisable, etc, This causes *a lot* of cross-browser
> development fun (in particular relating to what Firefox does to iFrame
> (gadget) content. Chrome is much better. ... haven't started on the various
> IE flavours yet).
> 2. Multiple columns (with divs for resize, minimise, maximise, title, grab
> bars, etc.) is a *real* pain in cross-browser CSS. HTML tables help greatly
> to manage columns and their content.
> 3. Sometimes columns need to be visible on the screen at the same time,
> sometimes scrolling right works ok. (This is design/usability-related but
> has the expected knock-on effects to coding).
> 4. Populating the columns with DOM operations (lower-level control but more
> code) or innerHTML (simpler but faster) has knock-on implications for
> aforementioned minimising, etc.
> I've spent 10 days working to create a useable (iotaWave-integrated) UI. Two
> days on the core development. Eight days on cross-browser issues. Beware.
> I too agree that inline replies can make a wave horrible. We have been
> holding-off implementing inline replies for that reason (and the fact that
> the average user has too many editing options to mentally comprehend), I
> follow your thoughts/ideas for their extraction with interest.
> --
> Chris
> iotawave.org
> Singapore
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