I am sure all of you have observed the cohesive design of this site. My question is about some of the cool info-boxes...that appear on various events. Like when someone with lower reputation tries to down-vote OR the long box that appears just below the browser address bar when I have got response to one of my questions.
These are basically JS generated DIV elements...but do any one of you know a good library/ set of controls that can be used to achieve these styling effects?
And yes I know the WZ library...which is pretty cool. But am looking for something more cohesive and closer in resemblance to stackOverflow styling.
do any one of you know a good library/ set of controls that can be used to achieve these styling effects?
What styles are you talking about? Everything in SO is essentially a normal html box (div) with borders, margins, and padding, and other plain and simple css settings.
There's no fancy widget anywhere, at least not something that I can see.
In fact, it's quite ugly, but we programmers have no taste :)
We like it because it's simple and straight to the point, not because it looks fancy.
As eveyone said Jquery is there in Stackoverflow doing some animations :)
if you see in the view source ,You can find out ,how it is working
E.g:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
Few days back i had same doubt .I researched on it and got some of nice animations as like stackoverflow using Jquery.