Indeed, this sort of Flash/Flex-based application is on the table...but, I find this a bit like mystery meat navigation. More specifically, I have been in touch with developers of Mindomo (http://www.mindomo.com) for use in EoL’s WorkBench environment using Adobe’s AIR for a desktop/web hybrid. Mind maps, tied down with Semantic Web technologies like that used in MindRaider (http://mindraider.sourceforge.net/index.html) are what I’m aiming for.
Cheers,
WOW!! Very slick!!! EoL should be all over this!
I would say the whole page is a useful model -- not just the tree part (by which I assume you meant the "Project Process" tile). The whole approach to organizing and presenting (i.e., zoom & pan) information is wonderful! It took a little "getting-used-to", but once I got the hang of it, I really liked it.
I gather that it's Flash? (I mean in the Macromedia/Adobe sense ... I already know it's "Flash" in the slang sense.)
A little sluggish -- but well worth it, I think.
Aloha,
Rich
From: tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca Shapley
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:25 AM
To: tdwg@lists.tdwg.org; Denise Green; bmishler@berkeley.edu
Subject: [tdwg] Interesting example of tree navigation
This is not only a fascinating website in general, but in one spot has a quite novel - not perfect, but nicely innovative - interaction model for a tree of information. Does a decent job of both showing the overview of information available and offering more information at various levels, in context, in response to interaction.
http://www.schematic.com/#/HowWeDoIt/ProjectProcess/
-R.