Right now my plan is to make patrickgillespie.com a depot for random projects and ideas. I was thinking that it might make sense to move some of my more random content (the miscellaneous section and Javascript games) this new site. That’d allow me to narrow the focus here to tools and programming.
For this new site’s interface, the main idea I was throwing around in my head was for the user to see a bunch of images floating through space. Each image would represent a piece of content and none of the content would be related. The idea would be that this was just a bunch of random stuff floating through cyberspace.
I whipped up a quick prototype using Van Halen album covers, which you can see by clicking the above link, and was unimpressed with the outcome. The movement ended up being pretty jumpy, and I’m not sure I like how the images just disappear when they “hit the screen” (when they do that they’re reset to way back in the distance). I’m starting to think that this kind of stuff is best left to Flash. There’s also some other issues, but since this is just a prototype I didn’t bother with certain details.
Right now I’m thinking of stealing my slider puzzle’s interface for patrickgillespie.com since I liked how that came out and nobody ever uses that thing anyway.
The site starts to load and then errors for me.
-Brian
Yikes, thanks for the heads up! I didn’t even bother to test it on IE. I’ve gotten so used to just using Firefox since it makes debugging Javascript a lot easier.
I’ll upload a newer version tonight.
Should be fixed now. IE and Firefox measure the inner width of documents differently. I was using:
document.body.clientWidth
Where it should have been:
document.documentElement.clientWidth
Did you ever end up giving jquery a shot?
$(document).width()
I played with it a little bit and a couple of the tutorials. Maybe I’ll take another look at it though. I keep thinking about it in terms of adding special effects, not as something to ease development, which may be the incorrect way of looking at it.