Experimental theme (drag and drop elements) – progress

  • Howdy,

    Some may remember months ago a theme I was working on using drag and drop javascript. I got a good bit of feedback and saw other people trying to do similar things – different visuals.

    I’ve revsited my theme (lol yea months later) and made some progress. First off, my comments weren’t working because I had the block of code in the wrong place…fixed that one upon opening my dusty file. Sometimes good to look at things with a fresh pair of eyes.

    Due to new Firefox patches (on the pc) firefox now behaves really well with the scrolling div and dragging. It works more like the Mac version of Firefox did before. yay.

    I got Internet Explorer to use the transparent pngs AND have the links clickable. My problem before was the links were not clickable if I used the transparent png.

    HOWEVER – There’s always a catch. The links seemed to be messed up for the main post area – which is the only container that scrolls. The links would not scroll and the links would even be visible outside the box (where other content was hidden). Firefox didn’t have any issues with those settings, but IE did.

    SO I made the notebook a junky gif again =(
    Until I can find a solution.

    You can check out this theme, “Notes” for lack of a better title, here: https://www.concepthue.com/blog/

    I will try to get this theme packaged up so it can be distributed in a quasi easy to setup manner…It doesn’t hack any core files, but it’s also pretty specific and not really flexible. In other words, if you want it, you can have it, (e-mail me) but the look will be just like mine…You couldn’t really add other elements unless you knew how.

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  • Thread Starter tmaiaroto

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    …I have compromised with the IE problem and scrolling. I added a javascript scroll function. Clicking “scroll up” and “scroll down” will now be used for IE. (I’ll ditch the scroll bar eventually for just IE)

    I think this may be a good move too for Safari…

    Not pretty – but I can make it a little more pretty by making scroll arrows fit the theme…Like drawn in pen on top the notebook. Two things that are lost though – 1. the all mighty scroll wheel. 2. the part of the scroll bar that you can drag.

    It’s an interesting idea, if you get the scroll stuff worked out somehow without js it might be more interesting to me.

    Thread Starter tmaiaroto

    (@tmaiaroto)

    Alf from https://www.DHTMLGoodies.com (where I found the drag script) fixed it! He rocks! Ok, everyone MUST go to that site and at least check out his work if you can’t find a way to use it. The stuff there is simply amazing. The amount of creative thoughts that jump to my mind after looking at his site is just retarded.

    Anyway, Thanks Alf.
    Scrolling in IE is now just fine!

    I have to hop on a Mac and try Safari next…

    Thread Starter tmaiaroto

    (@tmaiaroto)

    more problems – more fixes. I can’t test in Safari for a few days…if someone can help there? Anyway, I may have to just make another style sheet/if statements and html just for safari.. ugh why is safari reminding me of internet explorer? almost there. almost there.

    Thread Starter tmaiaroto

    (@tmaiaroto)

    Apparently Safari does work with this drag and drop. It just has the same problem IE did with scrolling content and dragging.

    So yay! More people can view the site. Still booh for IE that has issues with transparent PNG backgrounds and links..

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