: Perhaps you could show the 'nr of items left' as a tooltip of sorts when the : user actually drags the slider.
Years ago, when we were first working on building Solr, a coworker of mind suggested using double bar sliders (ie: pick a range using a min and a max) for all numeric facets and putting "sparklines" above them to give the user a visual indication of the "spread" of documents across the numeric spectrum. it wsa a little more complicated then anything we needed -- and seemed like a real pain in hte ass to implement. i still don't know of anyone doing anything like that, but it's definitley an interesting idea. The hard part is really just deciding what "quantum" interval you want to use along the xaxis to decide how to count the docs for the y axis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR -Hoss
