The Ono list Pager aims to provide standard code for the paging logic, while the transitions are customizable and extendable. That way the plugin can adapt to a particular design without you having to rewrite the basic stuff. But that’s already the advanced stuff. The Ono List Pager already has a few built-in, configurable transition types, so you’ll most likely just pick some example code from the demo page and go on with your life.

Extending the Ono List Pager

For the more adventurous types: creating your own transition shouldn’t be that hard. It is done by writing a piece of code called an animation object. You can start with a template of the animation object, or you just rewrite an existing one. I do not recommend to write your own animation object though, because the interface of those object can still change during development. In case you do write an animation object I’d like to hear it from you. maybe it can be become part of the plugin.

Open source and available on GitHub

The Ono List Pager is free and its project is available on Github, so go right ahead and make it your own.

Browser compatibility

My aim is to make the library run on all major browsers: IE7+, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and most likely Opera.

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The Bright Lines, as seen through 'readability'

Lately I came across Readability. It’s a bookmarklet (works only in FF, Safari and Chrome) that alters any website into a more readable one. It does so by presenting it in a book form. At a first glance I thought it as a nice  tool, but I wasn’t sure I was going to use it. Then I thought that it was a real good example that you as a user have more to say than you think.

We always accept the usability of the websites for what it is. If it’’s good, it’s good. If it’s bad it’s bad. But the frontend of the website is built on your computer, in your browser. You have a certain level of control over the HTML, CSS and Javascript.

The most common way to make a website better is by using ad blockers. Yes, some people do live of advertising, but I don’t think that means you should be obliged to see them if you don’t want to. Especially when they distract. The best thing about ad blockers is that it doesn’t require any knowledge of web development at all.

Another example is CoolIris that convert image pages of popular websites like Google Images or Flickr into a 3D wall of images.

A more techie Firefox plugin that I use is Stylish. I use it to add my own CSS to websites I regularly visit. Most of the time I use it to remove section that I regard useless with a simple display: none. A more powerful variation of Stylish is the plugin Greasemonkey. With Greasemonkey you can alter the websites with Javascript. And just like Stylish, you can publish your customization of the website through the plugin.

So that’s a reminder for me to see that websites are not cast in stone. Popular websites will on the client side be hacked by a small minority of users to cater their own needs. And if a site is really in need of improvement, plugins that help non-technical users would spread like wildfire.

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