http://blog.monstuff.com/ Julien Couvreur's programming blog and more en-us 2008-05-04T17:17:15-08:00 http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000317.html After reading Bret Victor's excellent essay on information design in software, entitled Magic Ink, I started implementing a re-usable javascript version of the text control which he advocates. Here is the TextWidget demo. The screenshots below illustrate his original control, which consists mainly of text in natural language. A simple interaction model to manipulate the information: some words can be clicked and doing so changes the sentence or edit some values. This control represents its state in a readable sentence at all times. This is much more efficient, compact and brain-friendly than common configuration dialogs (think of the recurring meeting... Projects Julien 2008-05-04T17:17:15-08:00 http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000337.html This script lets you scroll down the search results without having to turn pages, in using infinite scrolling. Instructions: Install the "Google - Single Page Results" script (requires Greasemonkey for Firefox) Search for something on Google Scroll down the page Continue scrolling down the page Repeat step 4 as much as you need ;-) This is a variation on the "Flickr - Single Page Results" I wrote yesterday.... Greasemonkey Julien 2008-04-17T10:01:02-08:00 http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000336.html Install the "Flickr - Single Page Results" script (requires Greasemonkey for Firefox) Search for something on Flickr Scroll down the page Continue scrolling down the page Repeat step 4 as much as you need ;-) Beware, this is rather hypnotic and makes Flickr really addictive. Recently, I have been fishing for images from Flickr to include in my blog posts. And it is clear that turning pages gets in the way. Luckily, there is an "endless scrolling" AJAX technique. Live.com tried it for its image results, instead of chunking them. It was discussed on the Humanized blog and implemented in... Greasemonkey Julien 2008-04-16T22:04:07-08:00