Reminds me of this: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/360-p...
... which has been around for a few years.
JQuery knobs
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#52I thought this was going to be an article about "brogrammers,"
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#53Like a few other in the thread I'm now stuck looking at an application where I can use this. They look friggin' awesome.
For some reason, the basic CSS reminds me of Wipeout, and that makes me both nostalgic in general and nostalgic for my young naivitë for future (I bought everything associated with that game when I was ~12). It's weird that UX can evoke that sort of response, but now I want to use it everywhere.
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#54Nit: it's jarring that when I first mousedown on the control, the value changes. This makes small, incremental changes difficult. Now, if I click on an area of the circle that is far from the pointer, perhaps it should snap. But if I'm close (or on top of the pointer), snapping is undesirable. (compare to a physical knob, which is the thing being emulated here: touching the knob does not change the input, you must to…
This is the crucial annoyance with knobs in a lot of synthesisers (real and virtual). Another problem with them is that it's not obvious how you change the value. Do you drag to the angle you want? Do you drag vertically? Horizontally
Which then gets me thinking about direct vs indirect manipulation. Which then distracts me from eating my breakfast.
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#55One use-case would be setting clock time, though with some modifications. I had such control in mind before. I think for some of us it would easier to make two clicks rather than enter numbers.
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#56Beautiful, but, when is this ever the best UX for a control (outside of sound mixers and sequencers)? (I'm expecting/hoping to get schooled on this.)
One use-case would be setting clock time, though with some modifications. I had such control in mind before. I think for some of us it would easier to make two clicks rather than enter numbers.
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#57Beautiful, but I don't want to see this in the wild. Knobs are bad for the same reason that pie charts are bad. Perceiving one-dimensional differences is easier than rotational/angular ones.
For quantities, yes, but for ratios, I'd prefer pie charts and knobs.
"75%/25% odds" would be nicer on a knob display, for instance.
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#58complaint: no visual way to determine if a knob is read-only?
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#59jQuery knobs + jQuery Rumble
Want to help update the script to keep the number in the middle?
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#60Works really nicely on an iPhone – much better than a lot of knob controls in many native apps.