On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

> The following link implements a slider, and I thought such a metaphor would 
> be a good one for any number of library interfaces:
>
> http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

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> I think the idea of a slider is cool as well as kewl. How could I implement 
> something like this easily?

In the example given, they're using Flash.  I'd assume that for most of us 
here, we're using HTML interfaces, so JavaScript is probably the best way 
to go.

Lots of them exist out there:

 	http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/slider/slider.html
 	http://www.softcomplex.com/products/tigra_slider_control/
 	http://carpe.ambiprospect.com/slider/

(I've most likely missed a large number of possible implementations ... 
these are just to serve as examples that such a thing exists)

Also, some of the more encompasing JavaScript toolkits have slider 
widgets, either included or as extensions:

 	http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dijit/tests/form/test_Slider.html
 	http://ui4w.sourceforge.net/UI4W/packed/samples/browser.html
 	http://extjs.com/learn/Extension:Slider
 	http://www.aldenta.com/examples/script.aculo.us/

...

And not quite a slider, but similar -- a toolkit for making timelines in 
JavaScript:

 	http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

(I've been using it to visualize event catalogs -- it helps to spot 
parsing errors when events are abnormally short / long)

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Joe Hourcle