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R.A. Ray replied on February 03, 2009 17:56 to the question "Scrollfollow does not work on Opera. Any Ideas?" in Net Perspective:

I've now confirmed that the examples from The Kitchen are working correctly in Opera 9.63 in WinXP and MacOSX. Without more details about your setup I'm not sure what I can do.

Are you sure you have javascript enabled in your browser? Are the examples on the Purr page working for you? http://kitchen.net-perspective.com/op...

R.A. Ray replied on February 03, 2009 15:28 to the question "Scrollfollow does not work on Opera. Any Ideas?" in Net Perspective:

Seems to work in 9.63 on Windows XP just fine as well. Can you be more specific about your setup?

R.A. Ray replied on February 03, 2009 15:26 to the question "Scrollfollow does not work on Opera. Any Ideas?" in Net Perspective:

As of Opera 9.61, Scroll Follow appears to be working perfectly. Let me upgrade and test again.

R.A. Ray replied on January 09, 2009 15:47 to the question "Automatic Purr w/out onLoad?" in Net Perspective:

Of course. I only have the examples set up to be on click so the person viewing them controls the action. Generally, I expected that those implementing Purr would probably be mixing in some AJAX goodness, but this should work just fine:


$( document ).ready( function ()
{
$( '#element' ).purr();
}
);


R.A. Ray replied on January 06, 2009 17:11 to the question "Scroll follow not working" in Net Perspective:

The container parameter has to be the ID of the container you wish to use. Your container has a CLASS of 'main' but not an ID. I suspect this is the issue.

I'm using ID for that parameter because the container has to be something unique.

R.A. Ray replied on January 05, 2009 15:58 to the question "Automatic Purr w/out onLoad?" in Net Perspective:

I expect so. If you explain the problem you are trying to solve I can try to help you find the solution.

R.A. Ray replied on October 29, 2008 22:52 to the question "scrollFollow jitters on ie6" in Net Perspective:

Today we released version 0.4.0 in which 'animate' is deprecated. http://kitchen.net-perspective.com/op...

R.A. Ray replied on October 29, 2008 22:51 to the idea "scroll follow delay param" in Net Perspective:

Today we released version 0.4.0 which includes the delay parameter: http://kitchen.net-perspective.com/op...

R.A. Ray replied on October 29, 2008 14:39 to the question "scrollFollow jitters on ie6" in Net Perspective:

Actually, I'm planning on removing the animation option in Scroll Follow completely. The only benefit of it being there right now is in IE6 which, as you say, still presents less than desirable behavior.

In all modern browsers "position: fixed" accomplishes this behavior perfectly and, as this page demonstrates, there is a workable CSS solution in IE6.

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R.A. Ray replied on October 25, 2008 16:32 to the problem "Issues with long scroll, scrollFollow stops 2/3 page. Ideas?" in Net Perspective:

Indeed, percentage values always refer to the element's parent. In the case of body, the parent is 'window' which has a height and width of the viewport.

You are correct, body will conform to the height of the content, as long as you don't tell it to behave otherwise.

R.A. Ray replied on October 25, 2008 16:05 to the problem "Issues with long scroll, scrollFollow stops 2/3 page. Ideas?" in Net Perspective:

Ok let me be more accuracte. The problem is your body's height is not being stretched by the content.

You had set a 3000px height and the body height was being reported as 3000px. Without that the height is reporting to me as 719px which is the height of the viewport.

Try removing "height: 100%" from the body declaration in your stylesheet.

R.A. Ray replied on October 25, 2008 15:42 to the problem "Issues with long scroll, scrollFollow stops 2/3 page. Ideas?" in Net Perspective:

This declaration: "body{height:3000px;}" on line 261 of your html (as reported by firefox) is causing the problem. Since body is the immediate container of #nav it is stopping when it reaches the perceived bottom.

Let me know if that fixes it.

R.A. Ray replied on October 24, 2008 22:57 to the idea "scroll follow delay param" in Net Perspective:

I like the idea generally, but the logistics are a bit. . . difficult. Anyone have any ideas about how to do this efficiently?

R.A. Ray replied on October 22, 2008 19:44 to the question "scrolling verticaly long elements" in Net Perspective:

I see. I'll keep the idea in mind, but I wonder about its usefulness.

Frankly, setting an element that is longer than a reasonably sized viewport to follow a user as they scroll is a usability problem to begin with. Having this behavior with a much smaller object would also be very annoying.

However, I think it can be done and if more people are interested I'll consider it.

R.A. Ray replied on October 22, 2008 15:17 to the question "scrolling verticaly long elements" in Net Perspective:

Please try the new version of Scroll Follow (0.3.1): http://kitchen.net-perspective.com/op...

The scroll following object should not break out of its container anymore when "relativeTo" is set to "bottom."

R.A. Ray replied on October 22, 2008 14:20 to the question "scrolling verticaly long elements" in Net Perspective:

mpapec,

This is already the default behavior when "relativeTo" is set to "top." It stops the following object from breaking out of the bottom of its container. I will look into fixing the behavior for "bottom."

R.A. Ray replied on October 20, 2008 15:05 to the question "Scroll in an included Div...?" in Net Perspective:

I'm sorry. I don't quite understand what you are asking for. Can you try to clarify?

R.A. Ray set one of R.A. Ray's replies as an official response to "Enable jQuery Scroll Follow to set an offset from the bottom" in Net Perspective

R.A. Ray replied on October 20, 2008 15:01 to the idea "dynamically wrap around floating div as it scrolls" in Net Perspective:

As far as I know, there are only two ways to accomplish this:

1. Change the top margin of a floated element.


2. Actually move the element down the HTML hierarchy.

Neither is a very attractive situation. Adding margin to the top of the element will leave a big empty block above it all the way down the page. Trying to move the element around in the hierarchy is a nightmare to put it mildly.

Anyway, it would be hard to convince me that supporting such behavior is a good idea. Having the text constantly shifting around as the user scrolls would be a disorienting experience.