Twile
11-17-2006, 06:54 PM
This might be something that is being addressed in the Ferrox update, but in case it isn't, here are my thoughts on it.
Above the list of recent things added to your favorites gallery (or regular gallery) there's a thumbnail for the most recent item. Why not use some Javascript to make the thumbnail change to the thumbnail of any submission name you scroll over? When you mouse over the name the thumbnail changes, when you move the mouse off it could change back or stay that way, however they think it would look best. I figure this would save some bandwidth too as you wouldn't make accidental server requests for thumbnails as you're moving your mouse down the page, possibly over the list of submission names. At the least it would get rid of the (sometimes unwanted) popups by giving them a more fixed location to appear. One problem I can think of for this is that, if the thumbnail is off screen, you won't see it. Fortunately, as the list of recent additions isn't very large, it's unlikely that you can't fit the full list and thumbnail on your screen. Other problem I suppose would be thumbnails of different sizes--it might force the browser to resize elements just by scrolling over submission names. This could be addressed by either making the "window" for the thumbnails a standard fixed size (the maximum that could be generated in a popup as is now for any submission) or a dynamic fixed size (the maximum that could be generated in a popup for the submissions in that user's displayed recent items).
Above the list of recent things added to your favorites gallery (or regular gallery) there's a thumbnail for the most recent item. Why not use some Javascript to make the thumbnail change to the thumbnail of any submission name you scroll over? When you mouse over the name the thumbnail changes, when you move the mouse off it could change back or stay that way, however they think it would look best. I figure this would save some bandwidth too as you wouldn't make accidental server requests for thumbnails as you're moving your mouse down the page, possibly over the list of submission names. At the least it would get rid of the (sometimes unwanted) popups by giving them a more fixed location to appear. One problem I can think of for this is that, if the thumbnail is off screen, you won't see it. Fortunately, as the list of recent additions isn't very large, it's unlikely that you can't fit the full list and thumbnail on your screen. Other problem I suppose would be thumbnails of different sizes--it might force the browser to resize elements just by scrolling over submission names. This could be addressed by either making the "window" for the thumbnails a standard fixed size (the maximum that could be generated in a popup as is now for any submission) or a dynamic fixed size (the maximum that could be generated in a popup for the submissions in that user's displayed recent items).