StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
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StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
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Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
#2Can any UX people illuminate the modern popularity of these things? I find them very distracting, and typically unusable. When I'm scrolling down the page, the function I'm performing is consumption of content. With a sidebar there begging me to click away (or worse, display ads and social media junk), it considerably reduces my desire to perform this function. It just reminds me of the Java applets in 1996 for sidebar buttons.
Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
#3Can any UX people illuminate the modern popularity of these things? I find them very distracting, and typically unusable. When I'm scrolling down the page, the function I'm performing is consumption of content. With a sidebar there begging me to click away (or worse, display ads and social media junk), it considerably reduces my desire to perform this function. It just reminds me of the Java applets in 1996 for sideb…
I think there is value in these types of sticky sidebars when they are used in the correct way. The correct way is when the sticky sidebar is a key of some sort. Links that jump around the current article for quick jumping. However, I agree, I can't stand when sites use these for ads or social media junk.
Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
#4Can any UX people illuminate the modern popularity of these things? I find them very distracting, and typically unusable. When I'm scrolling down the page, the function I'm performing is consumption of content. With a sidebar there begging me to click away (or worse, display ads and social media junk), it considerably reduces my desire to perform this function. It just reminds me of the Java applets in 1996 for sideb…
I think there is value in these types of sticky sidebars when they are used in the correct way. The correct way is when the sticky sidebar is a key of some sort. Links that jump around the current article for quick jumping. However, I agree, I can't stand when sites use these for ads or social media junk.
I agree that it all comes down to usage and content of the site. If the developer of the site uses something like this correctly to present always present useful information or links to the user, then they're great additions.
Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
#5not so sure about the "Finally" claim. been using https://github.com/terkel/jquery-floating-widget for a while, it also has the ability to stop floating when past a certain container's bottom edge. it's also much lighter weight.
demo: http://terkel.jp/demo/jquery-floating-widget-plugin.html
Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
#6Can any UX people illuminate the modern popularity of these things? I find them very distracting, and typically unusable. When I'm scrolling down the page, the function I'm performing is consumption of content. With a sidebar there begging me to click away (or worse, display ads and social media junk), it considerably reduces my desire to perform this function. It just reminds me of the Java applets in 1996 for sideb…
I think there is value in these types of sticky sidebars when they are used in the correct way. The correct way is when the sticky sidebar is a key of some sort. Links that jump around the current article for quick jumping. However, I agree, I can't stand when sites use these for ads or social media junk.
That's an excellent point. The sidebar on railstutorial.org is quite functional, and aside from some bright social icons not very distracting. I think that is the perfect use case for a sticky sidebar, navigation or additional information related to the actual body text. I guess I just see it used more as a new sidebar, basically emulating what framesets did for us back in the 90s.
Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
#7That page feels extremely sluggish when scrolling... I don't think I'm ever going to use this. And yes I'm using a browser with hardware acceleration intentionally disabled to simulate slower computers.
Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
#8not so sure about the "Finally" claim. been using https://github.com/terkel/jquery-floating-widget for a while, it also has the ability to stop floating when past a certain container's bottom edge. it's also much lighter weight. demo: http://terkel.jp/demo/jquery-floating-widget-plugin.html
I'm glad you posted this. You're right, this looks much better. I'll probably use this over the OP's plugin.
Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
#9Can any UX people illuminate the modern popularity of these things? I find them very distracting, and typically unusable. When I'm scrolling down the page, the function I'm performing is consumption of content. With a sidebar there begging me to click away (or worse, display ads and social media junk), it considerably reduces my desire to perform this function. It just reminds me of the Java applets in 1996 for sideb…
It's very useful for top-level navigation when using the "infinite scrolling" that seems to be so popular these days. It makes it so you don't have to scroll all the way back up when you're 10 pages deep.
Re: StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery.
#10Can any UX people illuminate the modern popularity of these things? I find them very distracting, and typically unusable. When I'm scrolling down the page, the function I'm performing is consumption of content. With a sidebar there begging me to click away (or worse, display ads and social media junk), it considerably reduces my desire to perform this function. It just reminds me of the Java applets in 1996 for sideb…
It's very useful for top-level navigation when using the "infinite scrolling" that seems to be so popular these days. It makes it so you don't have to scroll all the way back up when you're 10 pages deep.
how does this compare to having a "to top" button on the bottom of the page which appears when scrolling?
I mean, I understand the difference between showing actual actions or giving more space to content, but I'd like to know of some real studies on it.