Need inspiration for navigational script

[Sleidia]

Hi guys

What's the coolest and the most user friendly script you've seen for dynamically navigating through a list of hundreds of words with no sub-categories?

Thanks for the help

 

[feherke]

Hi

Well, implement a search functionality.

If you tell us what holds that list ( [tt]select[/tt], [tt]table[/tt], [tt]ul[/tt]/[tt]ol[/tt]/[tt]dl[/tt], [tt]a[/tt], ... ), will be easier to suggest solutions and/or implementations.

By the way, do you load the list entirely, so all the navigation is client-side only, or will need kind of AJAX solution to communicate with the server ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Sleidia]

Hi feherke

I want the list to be loaded entirely in the page and displayed in such a way that the user can find a word within seconds. A nice moving effect would be a plus. Anything could hold the list as long as it produce the desired effect.

Actually, I'd like something more intuitive than a search box.

So far, the best option I have in mind is a div box with a nice vertical scroll effect : like in some flash menus, the scroll would occur whether you put the pointer on the upper side or the lower side of the box with an acceleration proportional to the distance on the vertical axis. The font size would be bigger at the middle of the box and smaller at the top and bottom of the box.

Note that I'm not asking for code.

It's just ideas or live examples that I need.

Again, the ultimate goal is to make possible the find of one specific word in a vertical list of hundreds of words. The second requirement is that it has to look very cool.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Personally I find the lists with the scrolling effect you described annoying. And if the list has 10 or more items, I find it irritating and I leave the site. Certainly I would never navigate through a list of 100++ words that way.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Sleidia]

Ok but what way would you recommend then?