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Re: Show HN: Stalker, a jQuery Plugin That Follows Users on a Page

#11

Am I the only one what found the title of this post misleading? It's a plugin to make any dom element stick in the viewport ... the title made me think that it's a plugin that collects user behaviour?

Yes! That's exactly what I thought it was. Do you know of any script that does that?

Re: Show HN: Stalker, a jQuery Plugin That Follows Users on a Page

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Am I the only one what found the title of this post misleading? It's a plugin to make any dom element stick in the viewport ... the title made me think that it's a plugin that collects user behaviour?

Yes! That's exactly what I thought it was. Do you know of any script that does that?

I wrote one circa 2003, and there's an article about it here:

http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/mouse-tracking-with-j...

Re: Show HN: Stalker, a jQuery Plugin That Follows Users on a Page

#13

Am I the only one what found the title of this post misleading? It's a plugin to make any dom element stick in the viewport ... the title made me think that it's a plugin that collects user behaviour?

Yes! That's exactly what I thought it was. Do you know of any script that does that?

Yea well it can be done with Google analytics but requires some real in-depth knowledge and lots of setting things up. Clicktale (http://www.clicktale.com/) is another one but I don't have any experience with it.

Maybe there are other tools that I don't know of though.

Re: Show HN: Stalker, a jQuery Plugin That Follows Users on a Page

#16
This is one design pattern that I personally find incredibly irritating. I have no idea why either, perhaps because a page no longer behaves like a page. All of a sudden something just sticks to the top of the browser, I just want to shake it off!

Re: Show HN: Stalker, a jQuery Plugin That Follows Users on a Page

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post #15

this is essentially built into css now, with position: sticky http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/08/Stick-your-landings-po...

Actually I believe it is position: fixed.

From the article linked above:

"position: sticky is a new way to position elements and is conceptually similar to position: fixed. The difference is that an element with position: sticky behaves like position: relative within its parent, until a given offset threshold is met in the viewport."

Re: Show HN: Stalker, a jQuery Plugin That Follows Users on a Page

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! That's exactly what I thought it was. Do you know of any script that does that?

Yea well it can be done with Google analytics but requires some real in-depth knowledge and lots of setting things up. Clicktale ( http://www.clicktale.com/ ) is another one but I don't have any experience with it. Maybe there are other tools that I don't know of though.

CrazyEgg (http://crazyegg.com) and Inspectlet (http://inspectlet.com) do similar things. Mouse/click tracking, watching users as they move through your site, etc.
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