m3nt0r.de – beyond the net » Theme: Horizona:
worked the last two days on my very own theme. I was tired of the long columns and all that scrolling at the frontpage. In my first attempt to write a vertical scrolling JavaScript i failed on all the bugs and browser issues. Also the whole design was buggy in IE cause i was using alot float-left/right, position etc..

Frustrated, i was checking out the wordpress.org site once again and stumbled over that vertical scrolling in the “themes” section and thought: “hey, that’s exactly what i was looking for and yes, it’s crossbrowser compatible”. that was the point for me to get started. I quickly put together some basic index loop and started testing. i had fast success. it’s now possible to navigate the last 10 posts vertical, using the links going from 1 to 10 above the frame.

Since i needed to get rid of the ugly default scrollbars, i used overflow:hidden and put in a horizontal-scroll javascript on the left of that iframe with all the post in it. Problem solved, looking good, working on IE and FF.

AJAX; I was impressed by that renovatio theme from “fx” and thought on how to implement that type of navigation into my kinda static scrolling thing (fixed width/height). the intention was the combination of both to get the most out of the new compact design. it worked out. i simply put my iframe + navigation into the AJAX container. that way it gets replaced if someone is using the normal AJAX links from the sidebar.