Perhaps you could show the 'nr of items left' as a tooltip of sorts when the user actually drags the slider. If the user doesn't drag (or hovers over ) the slider 'nr of items left' isn't shown.
Moreover, initially a slider doesn't limit the results so 'nr of items left' shown for the slider would be the same as the overall number of items left (thereby being redundant) I must say I haven't seen this been implemented but it would be rather easy to adapt a slider implementation, to show the nr on drag/ hover. (they exit for jquery, scriptaculous and a bunch of other libs) Geert-Jan 2010/5/27 Lukas Kahwe Smith <m...@pooteeweet.org> > > 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
