[Phpmyadmin-devel] New navigation frame resize handler

Tyron Madlener tyronx at gmail.com
Mon Aug 1 12:27:32 CEST 2011


On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 09:26 +0300, Tyron Madlener wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com> wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I rewrote the navigation frame resize handler and I'm looking for some
>> > feedback and opinions. The new handler keeps navigation frame width
>> > synchronised and there is an option to collapse the frame. I made a
>> > video [1] that showcases the functionality and there are a few words
>> > about it in my blog [2] and of course, it can be seen ion action on my
>> > demo site [3].
>> >
>>
>> I would still find it nice to have just one collapse/expand button in
>> the middle, but therefore bigger. Though we might need to check that
>> the expand button doesn't overlap other content too much.
>
> I put the collapse buttons at the top and bottom of the screen exactly
> for that reason: keeping them out of the way. Let's see what others
> think about this.
>
>> Also having it animated, even if it is a bit laggy, gives a more
>> fluent experience instead of having it flash in and out, imho.
>
> The animation for the frame collapse is _too_ laggy IMO. Most of the
> time there is too much content in the main frame for a smooth
> transition. So I animated the buttons instead :D
>
>> And lastly, frame resize still doesn't work in Chrome.
>
> Apparently it's a well known bug. Frame resize is only possible on
> chrome if the frameborder attribute is set to 1. Of course, setting
> frameborder to 1 makes the navigation look ugly in a every other
> browser. I guess that we could conditionally set frameborder to 1 for
> chrome only...

Or maybe it's time to throw away the pma frames altogether :-)

>
>> > Rouslan
>> >
>> > [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-MFX3i3tQ0
>> > [2]: http://roccivic.blogspot.com/2011/07/report-for-week-10.html
>> > [3]: http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/gsoc-rouslan/
>
>
>
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