backstage.bbc.co.uk

• 1.
• On 20 May 2005 08:06 PM,
• Andrew Jones said:

I've submitted to the backstage team this prototype which carries this out (except the highlighting doesn't fade out yet). Take a look at the URL in the post and see what you think. Andy

• 2.
• On 23 May 2005 12:36 PM,
• Ben O'Neill said:

If you do plan on making this into a prototype, check out FAT:
http://www.axentric.com/aside/fat/

For fading things

• 3.
• On 24 May 2005 01:56 PM,
• Simon said:

Thought about something like this for the site I work on. What worries me is the mystery meat factor. What happens when the highlights fade. Do I have to memorise all of the highlighted links to the new content. What about the highlight re-appearing when you hover over the link? This is much better than the tired old 'new' icon!

• 4.
• On 27 May 2005 04:08 PM,
• Enrico said:

Yes, having the highlight return during rollover is good.

• 5.
• On 01 Jun 2005 09:12 AM,
• Don Crowley said:

over at 37 signals.com (site is down at the moment) they have a technique called yellow fade, it's a javascript (GPL I think). They use it with the AJAX technology so that when a page receives new data, it's background goes yellow and the fades. See www.37signals.com/svn/archives/001070.php

• 6.
• On 28 Jun 2005 12:26 PM,
• OrangeJon said:

Why not just remember which stories you've read before, and only show new ones? Then provide a seperate list of "articles you read recently", for easy reference.

What I *really* want to see, tough, is collaborative-filtering based personalised news feeds...

• 7.
• On 25 Jul 2005 08:18 AM,
• Steve said:

On breaking stories the bbc news site also seems to update the stories as they happen. So a first version appears, then more details are added as they become available. It would be good if the new stuff could be highligted also, so you could see what had been added to the article.