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Re: Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

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Post by gfodor »

JonnieCache wrote: post #47
wdewind wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly can't tell if you are being serious or not. If you are: expand on "obvious usefulness." If you aren't, congrats on telling a joke on HN and still getting upvoted.

Erm... for sorting and filtering data in a way that implicitly describes the transformations in the presented dataset caused by said sorting/filtering through the animation effects. Information density++ I honestly see this as obvious. I'm not trying to be funny. And I can't work out if you don't think this is obvious, or you don't agree that this would be useful. Just imagine it on an ecommerce page: http://www.goog…

I see the argument but honestly, I'm not buying it. It's a valiant attempt to portray this information (a differential) through animation, but it's too noisy and chaotic, particularly when more than a few of the items need to reposition themselves. It looks nice but at least from the demos on that page I don't feel like it's really helping increase the information density of the data being presented.

At the end of the day, I think it's polish that for almost all cases the user will be better served if the animation were to be turned off since it is a waste of time. It is very cool though!

Re: Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

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Post by prawn »

Geee wrote: post #38

How does it run on lower spec computers or devices like iPad? I'm just wondering where the line should be drawn when considering the website performance/user experience.

My laptop is 6-7 years old and it isn't overly slick for me, but not so bad that it'd be a huge concern. Definitely worth testing depending on how many items you're looking to incorporate though.

Re: Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

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Post by skybrian »

wdewind wrote: post #21
sfphotoarts wrote: post #16

I hate to make such a banal comment, but when I see things like this I cannot wait to redesign my website and use this ultra-cool technologies. After programming for 25 years I am grateful to this plugin and the developer(s) for the excitement that playing with the demo just gave me. Buried under all those years of coding standards this rekindled some of the feelings from the kid in me that would eagerly look forward…

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?

After playing with it a bit, I'm guessing it would be most useful for image galleries that contain a lot of irregularly sized images and you want to fit a lot of them on the screen. Or something like Google Image Search.

Re: Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

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Post by KevBurnsJr »

The buttons on the site are broken. The click events are all waiting for page load which is taking 20 seconds due to an unrelated request timeout for a javascript resource from a different domain. Probably some sort of analytics.

Same thing has been caused by ads on pastie.org lately http://pastie.org/1538368

Register your click events BEFORE page load, kiddies.

Especially if you have blocking embedded links to resources that are not in your control.

Re: Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

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Post by notque »

Tycho wrote: post #40
wdewind wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right - my question is who needs this kind of behavior? And why?

Don't things ever strike you as potentially very useful before you think of a specific use case? In this case, it's bound to be useful when you're building interfaces for webapps, to let you do new things. For instance, an onlline clone of Football Manager where gamers want to examine the stats of the players in the other team, but from a whole lot of different perspectives: graphically in formation, or in a list sor…

I run an online Football (american) sim, and I am sitting here dreaming up how to use it.

I hadn't considered the stats, that's interesting. Same could be said for the draft, and free agency.

Both are really hard to order, and see useful data that way. I'll have a lot of variations though, and a lot of items. Just the draft is 384 rows(players)

Re: Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

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Post by Tycho »

notque wrote: post #58
Tycho wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't things ever strike you as potentially very useful before you think of a specific use case? In this case, it's bound to be useful when you're building interfaces for webapps, to let you do new things. For instance, an onlline clone of Football Manager where gamers want to examine the stats of the players in the other team, but from a whole lot of different perspectives: graphically in formation, or in a list sor…

I run an online Football (american) sim, and I am sitting here dreaming up how to use it. I hadn't considered the stats, that's interesting. Same could be said for the draft, and free agency. Both are really hard to order, and see useful data that way. I'll have a lot of variations though, and a lot of items. Just the draft is 384 rows(players)

Not sure how appropriate this is to American Football, but it'd be a neat way to transform between different team formations that the user wants to try.

Re: Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

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Post by notque »

Tycho wrote: post #59
notque wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run an online Football (american) sim, and I am sitting here dreaming up how to use it. I hadn't considered the stats, that's interesting. Same could be said for the draft, and free agency. Both are really hard to order, and see useful data that way. I'll have a lot of variations though, and a lot of items. Just the draft is 384 rows(players)

Not sure how appropriate this is to American Football, but it'd be a neat way to transform between different team formations that the user wants to try.

That's true, I hadn't considered that. You could also group them in some interesting ways like that.

The thing is, I wouldn't want to move pictures like that though. They'd actually be tables to move like that, so the user could move the tables around, and then make selections within those tables.

You're always making some choice with an American Football game. A lot of ordered data is what it comes down to.

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