Comments on: BookJetty: Book Listing Variants, Cover View and More…

by: Herryanto Siatono

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:44:16 +0000

My concern is that the widget form is getting cluttered with so many parameters, and class name may not make sense for those who know nothing about CSS.

But, yet I think I’ll still add the variable in, but will not put it in the form yet, so those who need it can still use it.

Will let you know when it’s up. :)

by: Jamieson teo

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:03:45 +0000

I was just thinking, wouldn’t it be good to insert a optional class parameter in the widget (sorry i’m posting here, can’t post at the widget page). Something like bj_img_class = something . That way we can apply our own CSS to the thumbnails. From my page which I’ve loaded the widget, it’ll look great with the reflect function. On article pages I’ve loaded your widget as a vertical so I won’t by using the reflect function but can nonetheless use something else if I choose to. What do you think Herry?

by: Jamieson teo

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:20:51 +0000

Any chance you can add the class=reflect to the img tag of your widget thumbnails?

by: Herryanto Siatono

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:20:53 +0000

@Miccheng I think I’ll wait for questions from the users, see if they are frequent or not, from before putting in FAQ. Hehe…Thanks anyway. :)

by: Herryanto Siatono

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:02:36 +0000

There’s a way to do it with Reflection javascript:
http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/reflection/

But it can mess up your layout, I tried to do it for the book covers scroll, and it messed up the scroller. And the other draw back is, it’s gonna take up additional space for the reflection, you can’t put text on top of it. :)

by: Joe Goh

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:22:14 +0000

Here’s the new Finder i’m talking about: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/finder.html

If you can find a way to dynamically generate reflections for the book covers in BookJetty, that’ll be awesome. :-)

by: Herryanto Siatono

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:10:31 +0000

Hehe…thanks Joe…ya…hopefully soon…Anyone would love to donate their Mac? :D

by: Miccheng

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:05:41 +0000

Very cool! Perhaps a FAQ page to describe what the different elements mean (library view). eg. Italics text means type of book. Publisher name is after the italics text.

Hee hee… perhaps use SharedCopy to do this?

by: Joe Goh

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:02:39 +0000

Nice redesign, looks really Mac-inspired as it reminds me of the new Finder in Mac OS X Leopard with Cover Flow.

When are you going to be getting a Mac Herry? ;-)