I have enough trouble with the stickies littering my desk. Why do I want to look at someone else's virtual clutter?

Posted by: JS on June 10, 2002 06:03 PM

 

Where have you been, fleener? I've had to become the "uber poster" here. ;)

Posted by: MadMan on June 11, 2002 01:24 AM

 

I built malevole mostly as an experiment. The idea was to force myself to use things I'd normally steer clear of (gimmicky interfaces, poor legibility, lots of images, clutter, 'rough' design, pointless content) to see what'd happen. Also, I was tired of seeing so many similar weblogs, the format seemed to be stagnating.

It's not a particularly usable interface in many ways, but I've found giving each note a different fixed position, size and style does make content more memorable, rather than having a single content block where each item is part of a continuous flow of text, with the same formatting and varying on-screen position.

I've got 2 more experimental DHTML weblog interfaces in the works using different methods of positioning, styling and ageing content, hopefully I'll get to refine them soon and find somewhere to apply them.

Posted by: Matt Round on June 11, 2002 04:50 AM

 

I think this interface is very innovative. I can see similar but unrelated uses for it. Thanks.

Posted by: Eric Grose on June 11, 2002 09:37 AM

 

MadMan, I was perturbed by something Johnboy did (or didn't do). So I took a brief respite from posting, at least publicly. Webword is a bit like heroin, so I had to come back to shoot up again. (However, I’m glad to report I have completely extricated myself from /. for various unrelated reasons.)

Posted by: Jacko on June 11, 2002 11:17 AM

 

When I move the notes, the paper background disappears, and so I'm seeing dark text being moved on a dark background. It would work better if the page background was white, or if the object I was moving was only a note outline (similar to MS Windows where you can move window outlines).

What does it matter? It makes me feel better to see what I'm moving. I'm bothered by losing sight of the object I'm moving.

Posted by: Jacko on June 12, 2002 04:29 PM

 

The background keeps disappearing in Win IE6 if you have its cacheing settings on "Every visit to the page". For some reason it reloads the note's background image every time you move it, even though the page isn't changing any images or doing anything that should confuse the browser.

It's an annoying browser bug, but luckily only affects the minority who've altered their cache settings.

Posted by: Matt Round on June 12, 2002 05:46 PM

 

Egads. I bet many designers have "every visit to the page" checked. I'm in IE6 only because I'm sporting a new computer at work. I'll have to see how things look at home in my '69 VW Beetle.

No, that's not really my car. But I did grow up with one. Planted my head in the windshield a couple times, too. Yeah, that explains a lot about me now, doesn't it?

Posted by: Jack on June 12, 2002 06:40 PM