On 27.05.2010, at 23:32, Geert-Jan Brits wrote: > Something like sliders perhaps? > Of course only numerical ranges can be put into sliders. (or a concept that > may be logically presented as some sort of ordening, such as "bad, hmm, > good, great" > > Use Solr's Statscomponent to show the min and max values > > Have a look at tripadvisor.com for good uses/implementation of sliders > (price, and reviewscore are presented as sliders) > my 2c: try to make the possible input values discrete (like at tripadvisor) > which gives a better user experience and limits the potential nr of queries > (cache-wise advantage)
yeah i have been pondering something similar. but i now realized that this way the user doesnt get an overview of the distribution without actually applying the filter. that being said, it would be nice to display 3 numbers with the silders, the count of items that were filtered out on the lower and upper boundaries as well as the number of items still left (*). aside from this i just put a little tweak to my facetting online: http://search.un-informed.org/search?q=malaria&tm=any&s=Search if you deselect any of the checkboxes, it updates the counts. however i display both the count without and with those additional checkbox filters applied (actually i only display two numbers of they are not the same): http://screencast.com/t/MWUzYWZkY2Yt regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith m...@pooteeweet.org (*) if anyone has a slider that can do the above i would love to integrate that and replace the adoption year checkboxes with that
