What is all this fading and yellow stuff then?
Posted by Chris @ 10:34 pm
You may have noticed on my blog things that I load in using AJAX techniques now fade in and have a little spotlight put on them using a yellow background. That's because I'm using the Yahoo YUI JavaScript library and following one of their design patterns.
Any comments let me know, I quite like it.
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Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:44:00 am
Well done. However, I think you're using it in the completely wrong manner. I would say that you should only really use that when something is new or when you're confirming something has changed - not just because you want to draw someone's attention to something. (At least that's when other sites do it.) Since I'd already seen those blog posts and comments, that confused me when I reloaded the page as I thought, "Oooh, something new!"Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Sort it out Riley.
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Saturday, December 23, 2006 2:15:00 pm
"Just because you can doesn't mean you should."But sometimes it is nice to muck about and see what happens. I did consider it should only occur when there is a new blog post to read, but that would take cookies, etc to do, and I couldn't be bothered. Consider it in beta! It actually sprouted from wanting to animate the transition a bit, the colour was an afterthought because I knew about the design pattern. Maybe the colour will go, maybe it will stay, we'll see where the mood takes me over Christmas...
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