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Re: Show HN: hColumns – a jQuery plugin that looks like OS X Finder Column View

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Post by buweichiu »

sachleen wrote: post #2

Pretty neat! One thing though: when the horizontal scroll bar shows, a vertical one shows as well. See this: http://i.imgur.com/ZzqDv0C.png

Thanks, it seems happen to very deep folders.

i will fix that. And i found IE * will not show up at all.

Re: Show HN: hColumns – a jQuery plugin that looks like OS X Finder Column View

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Post by buweichiu »

buweichiu wrote: post #3
sachleen wrote: post #2

Pretty neat! One thing though: when the horizontal scroll bar shows, a vertical one shows as well. See this: http://i.imgur.com/ZzqDv0C.png

Thanks, it seems happen to very deep folders. i will fix that. And i found IE * will not show up at all.

This bug fixed, and after tested, IE 8 is known not working.

Re: Show HN: hColumns – a jQuery plugin that looks like OS X Finder Column View

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Post by ronj »

Crisp! By the way:

- Any idea why this view isn't used in file managers other than Finder? (especially Windows Explorer & GNOME Nautilus/Files). This view has so many advantages (very visual, enable quick round-trips in a hierarchy, show the path leading to a leaf while conserving screen space, enable copying files from anywhere to anywhere, more adapted to our horizontal screens and vision than traditional WindowsExplorer-ish views) that I can't understand why it wasn't copied elsewhere. Is it patented?

- Any option for such a file manager under Linux/Windows? Maybe a Nautilus extension/fork (and under windows, an Explorer patch/extension)?

Re: Show HN: hColumns – a jQuery plugin that looks like OS X Finder Column View

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Post by buweichiu »

tzaman wrote: post #6

It's nice, but I can't think of a use case for behaviour like this on the web.

i use this for displaying a very deep set of FAQ (img below) that once used a treeview but found it too messy.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/702/53758010151491375964161.j...

of course it has some improvement, like use some custom type and more css styling.

Re: Show HN: hColumns – a jQuery plugin that looks like OS X Finder Column View

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Post by joubert »

Browsing of tree structures using Miller columns has a fairly long tradition.

Think Smalltalk's code browser: http://www.pharo-project.org/about/screenshots

Or NeXSTEP where you see the Cocoa ancestry for this columnar display: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GNUstep-liveCD.png

Beyond Finder, you'll notice that on your iPhone / iPad this paradigm is everywhere. When you see a list, you can select an item and dive into the next level. The only difference is that a single column consumes the entire screen width. See UINavigationController: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/...

In Cocoa, there is a general NSBrowser class, which implements this paradigm: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa...

Another application that uses faceted browsing is of course iTunes: http://screenshots.oahermes.com/6/large_4_itunes_store.png

One project which I tracked long ago, called mSpace, has some good stuff: http://research.mspace.fm

Re: Show HN: hColumns – a jQuery plugin that looks like OS X Finder Column View

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joubert wrote: post #8

Browsing of tree structures using Miller columns has a fairly long tradition. Think Smalltalk's code browser: http://www.pharo-project.org/about/screenshots Or NeXSTEP where you see the Cocoa ancestry for this columnar display: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GNUstep-liveCD.png Beyond Finder, you'll notice that on your iPhone / iPad this paradigm is everywhere. When you see a list, you can select an item and dive i…

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