April 16th 2008 02:32 pm
One of my clients has opted to be the first “production” guinea pig of my awfRadial class. Since it still isn’t complete I’m sure there will be issues to resolve, but so far it’s performing it’s roll flawlessly.
Go take a look at this beauty in action at http://mailahug.com/test
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April 7th 2008 01:06 am
I’m happy to say the initial version of awfRadial is coming along quite nicely. It is fully functional in Radial Mode, and I’ve implemented the Yahoo! UI animation libraries so the items slide out from the base using any one of 13 optional animation modes. I’ll try to link up a rough demo tomorrow.
Next I’m looking into several javascript drawing libraries to create the lines running between base and items.
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March 31st 2008 02:39 pm
Sneak preview: I’ve started working on another new PHP-based HTML and AJAX rendering class, called awfRadial. Click the thumbnails for a bigger storyboard image of rendering concepts.
The premise is simple: display between 1 and 48 rendered “objects” in radial form around a central element, each object having user configurable HTML, CSS, and AJAX properties for complete customization. This will be generic so that it can be implemented in many ways; I’ll probably release several additional wrapper classes for some common implementations such as radial context menu, or data drill-through applications.
Having read-up some on other attempts to create browser-happy radial menus, I’m assuming this will be a fairly daunting project, as most people have moved on to Flash or Java applets to make it work. I aim to make the end result as extensible as possible, but I always take the “crawl, walk, run” approach with new projects. So the first version will likely be rendered as a flat HTML table emulating a circular layout. To do this with raw CSS positioning will have to wait for a later release. The cross-browser issues relating to DIV positioning are my pet peeve and I want to at least get proof of concept functional before banging my head against IE6.
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