[thelist] scrolling horizontal screen scripts
Means, Eric D
eric.d.means at boeing.com
Wed Apr 24 15:26:01 CDT 2002
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Frost [mailto:lisa at koolfish.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:02 AM
> To: the list
> Subject: [thelist] scrolling horizontal screen scripts
>
> Hi,
> A client of mine wants a website that functions the same as this site:
> http://www.beautifullyblue.com/ When you clink a the link the page zooms
> one screen to the left to reveal the next screen of content.
Very interesting effect. Quite original.
> I was also
> wondering how cross browser this type of thing is. I could view it in IE
> 5, when I tried to view it in NS6 and IE4 I had problems but I think
> that may have been my internet connection and I gave up. Any thoughts
> about this type of navigation for the site would be appreciated and any
> pitfalls to look out for would be appreciated. I am a total beginner
> when it comes to javascript.
As far as cross browser, it works for me in IE6, Mozilla 0.9.9, Netscape
4.77, and Opera 6, so it seems pretty stable. A quick glance at their
source code seemed to indicate they expect the script to work in IE3 and NS3
and up, which is about as cross-browser as you're going to find.
Even if the JS breaks on a given browser, the page is just one extremely
wide webpage that gets horizontally scrolled, so no JS wouldn't hurt
anything other than making you manually scroll left or right.
A lot of the site is in images, so handicapped accessibility might be a
gotcha.
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