Haha! Important tooltips are now "deprecated" in Web Applications.
This is nothing "official", of course. But it's being advised to avoid important UI tasks that require cursor tracking, mouse-over, hovering, etc. in web applications. Why? Many touch-centric mobile devices don't support "hover". For me I'm used to my laptop where the touch pad or stylus *is* able to measure the pressure. But the finger based touch devices generally can differenciate it I guess. They *can* tell one gesture from another, but only looking at the timing and shape. And hapless hover aint one of them. With that said, I'm still a fan of Tool Tips in desktop IDE's like Eclipse, or even on Web applications when I'm on a desktop. I guess the point is that, if it's a really important thing, then you need to expose it in another way on mobile. Just passing this on, please don't shoot the messenger. ;-) Mark -- Mark Bennett / New Idea Engineering, Inc. / mbenn...@ideaeng.com Direct: 408-733-0387 / Main: 866-IDEA-ENG / Cell: 408-829-6513 On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Geert-Jan Brits <gbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
