Dojo Tool Kit has come up with a new web based non-flash menu which is easy to use, and is loaded with the "wow factor". After ten years of designing with standard navigational constructs we finally have many new and exciting possibilities to help users navigate websites. The AJAX Fisheye List Widget is basically a javascript version of the Apple Dock. As a mac owner I love the user interaction with Apple's Dock, however, until now this has only been available on the web through Flash. Watch out, this could well be the next Yellow Fade Technique.
I’ve seen this effect before but can’t remember the website. The website offered a service, it must have been a CMS or so. Anyway, just wanted to tell that Dojo may not be the first to come up with this non-flash navigation.
At one point Google had created a similar effect for their homepage—all done in javascript. An archive is available at http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/03/16/google-x-pulled/
Hi Bart and Ian,
Thanks so much for the great information. In many ways learning and sharing are what makes blogging fun. I’m glad to have learned this was not the first application of this technique. Thanks!
I’m thinking about adding the “dojo” MacOsX effect to my digg-clone website here http://www.inboxnews.com
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