Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

Post by moe » Mon, Feb 07, 2011, 8:51 PM UTC

fredleblanc wrote: post #28

moe wrote: post #11

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$37 is a joke. I just purchased it b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶i̶z̶e̶s̶ ̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶g̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶o̶r̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶a̶g̶n̶i̶t̶u̶d̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ to support further development of this gem.

I'm not really commenting on the price chosen, but the choice to charge for it. I've also created a jQuery plugin or two. I released it for free and now spend a reasonable amount of time answering questions about support, implementation, etc. For some reason in my mind I had always assumed that open source type things have to be done for free: the building, the support, etc. Seeing someone doing something others help…

Post by wdewind » Mon, Feb 07, 2011, 9:02 PM UTC

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #27

wdewind wrote: post #21

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This seems like a neat plugin, but I don't understand all the mega excitement. What am I missing, why is this so earth shattering (read the other comments in this thread)? What is justifying people saying $37 is a "frictionless" price? What are you planning to do that makes you so excited by this?

My thought was that if you need this type of behavior on your site $37 dollars is much less expensive than the amount of time it would take for you to pull all the elements of this together yourself.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 07, 2011, 9:10 PM UTC

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #27

wdewind wrote: post #21

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This seems like a neat plugin, but I don't understand all the mega excitement. What am I missing, why is this so earth shattering (read the other comments in this thread)? What is justifying people saying $37 is a "frictionless" price? What are you planning to do that makes you so excited by this?

My thought was that if you need this type of behavior on your site $37 dollars is much less expensive than the amount of time it would take for you to pull all the elements of this together yourself.

Post by jeisenberg » Mon, Feb 07, 2011, 9:29 PM UTC

NathanKP wrote: post #10

Isotope is fairly nice, but it is still missing fluid width on the layout elements. In other words, although it does respond fairly well to horizontal resizing of the browser, it still doesn't do a good job of dynamically adjusting the width of elements horizontally while at the same time stacking them vertically. I made some custom modifications on the original jQuery masonry plugin to get the effect I needed for my…

Post by yurifury » Mon, Feb 07, 2011, 10:02 PM UTC

shrikant wrote: post #18

moe wrote: post #11

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$37 is a joke. I just purchased it b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶i̶z̶e̶s̶ ̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶g̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶o̶r̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶a̶g̶n̶i̶t̶u̶d̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ to support further development of this gem.

That's a lot of hard work to substitute for the 'strikethru' tag :)