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Show HN: hColumns – a jQuery plugin that looks like OS X Finder Column View
- sachleen 14y agoPretty neat! One thing though: when the horizontal scroll bar shows, a vertical one shows as well. See this: http://i.imgur.com/ZzqDv0C.png http://i.imgur.com/ZzqDv0C.png
- ronj 14y agoCrisp! By the way: - Any idea why this view isn't used in file managers other than Finder? (especially Windows Explorer & GNOME Nautilus/Files). This view has so many advantages (very visual, enable quick round-trips in a hierarchy, show the path leading to a leaf while conserving screen space, enable copying files from anywhere to anywhere, more adapted to our horizontal screens and vision than traditional WindowsExplorer-ish views) that I can't understand why it wasn't copied elsewhere. Is it patented? - Any option for such a file manager under Linux/Windows? Maybe a Nautilus extension/fork (and under windows, an Explorer patch/extension)?
- tanishaj 14y agoOn Linux, I guess there is always GWorkspace: http://www.gnustep.org/experience/GWorkspace.html http://www.gnustep.org/experience/GWorkspace.html
- joubert 14y agoBrowsing of tree structures using Miller columns has a fairly long tradition. Think Smalltalk's code browser: http://www.pharo-project.org/about/screenshots http://www.pharo-project.org/about/screenshots Or NeXSTEP where you see the Cocoa ancestry for this columnar display: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GNUstep-liveCD.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GNUstep-liveCD.png Beyond Finder, you'll notice that on your iPhone / iPad this paradigm is everywhere. When you see a list, you can select an item and dive into the next level. The only difference is that a single column consumes the entire screen width. See UINavigationController: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UINavigationController_Class/Reference/Reference.html http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/... In Cocoa, there is a general NSBrowser class, which implements this paradigm: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSBrowser_Class/Reference/Reference.html https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa... Another application that uses faceted browsing is of course iTunes: http://screenshots.oahermes.com/6/large_4_itunes_store.png http://screenshots.oahermes.com/6/large_4_itunes_store.png One project which I tracked long ago, called mSpace, has some good stuff: http://research.mspace.fm http://research.mspace.fm
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- tzaman 14y agoIt's nice, but I can't think of a use case for behaviour like this on the web.
- buweichiu 14y agoi use this for displaying a very deep set of FAQ (img below) that once used a treeview but found it too messy. http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/702/53758010151491375964161.jpg http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/702/53758010151491375964161.j... of course it has some improvement, like use some custom type and more css styling.
- ianstormtaylor 14y agoLayerVault could use it for their file browser.