Interesting concept! It would be really useful with this design to be able to click on a label and have the page jump to that section. Simple #hash and anchor should do it.
For those as confused as I was, it turns out you have to grab the scroll bar and move it until one of the (initially invisible) bookmarks is highlighted on the right.
I've never used Chromium, but you don't get the browser's vertical scrollbar on the right side of the screen? I have it in Chrome on Windows. Moving it shows various categories right beside it and lining it up with them changes the content in the middle.
are those of you who can't see anything have any type of twitter widget block. I tried in incognito mode and worked. Anyways sort of cool, but i've seen similar implementations of the same idea.
FYI, this thing needs to talk to twitter, so if you have disconnect.me or something similar installed, you need to allow it to communicate with twitter before you see anything.
Otherwise you get a nice off-white box in the middle of the screen, and not much else.
Yes it grabs trending tweets from the Twitter Search API as content for the demo. If that fails for some reason, then nothing happens (obviously something that I'll need to fix next).
I didn't know what to except when I clicked on this post. But as soon as I landed on the page I started scrolling up&down, left&right; eventually "the thing" showed itself to me. The concept is neat; i must say.
UI would be a bit friendlier if;
1) The changes were more responsive. The delay is too long when scrolling and hovering over an element - should be around 100ms or so. If it takes time to load the content, show some visual signal (loading... or similar) that state has changed.
2) You could mouse over and click on each of the items.
Chrome, Linux: 14.0.835.35 dev. I don't see any scrollbar. Scrolling with the mouse does nothing.
Got it working in Firefox, or at least I think I did. This is kinda awful, and I do mean that with respect. I'd much rather mouse over the labels on the right and have the message pop up instantly. The delay and amount I have to scroll makes this awkward. I thought it was broken still until I gave up and the message popped in.
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If you have Chrome it should open in that.
Otherwise you get a nice off-white box in the middle of the screen, and not much else.
Got it working in Firefox, or at least I think I did. This is kinda awful, and I do mean that with respect. I'd much rather mouse over the labels on the right and have the message pop up instantly. The delay and amount I have to scroll makes this awkward. I thought it was broken still until I gave up and the message popped in.