New types of BookerBoxes have been added. The original BookerBox still exists of course, and we refer to it as type ‘box’. But we have added two new types, Dropdown and Textlinks. Both have the same flexibility of the original BookerBox, but now can fit into more site designs, and fit with the needs you have for adding bookmarking access to your site. You can see them on the Examples page.
You know, to add to your browser favorites. It’s doubtful anyone would ever use it from within the BookerBox, since after all, the person is using their browser… But it felt incomplete without it.
BookerBox now has ‘modes’ though currently there is only 1 mode of value to you, which is ‘box’. Even if you don’t have the mode set in your javascript, the default is ‘box’ anyway so it doesn’t break anything for you. Eventually more modes will be added, which will allow you to select from a whole bunch of different ways of presenting BookerBox to your users.
You set the mode in the javascript block as:
BB_mode = “box”;
There is one other mode currently active, though it really has only a use to us on this site, but regardless, you can use it if you want, though i’m not sure what you would use it for…
BB_mode = “servicelist”;
This will return the full list of services, as their service name, in our system.
We are going to add a row setting so that you can determine how many rows you want the box to be. So you could display svc=all and rows=2 which would result in 2 rows showing ALL the services. Or set 5 columns and 2 rows which would result in 10 services showing up.
Was wrapping the icons in anchors (A href) but changed from that to an “onclick” method applied directly to the image. This shrinks the code a bit, plus eliminates some style conflicts that were cropping up on certain sites.
Was using inline CSS at the element level, now its a style block like it should be to adhere to newer HTML specs.
Ok, the first way left too much open for people to break. So I updated it. Now a lot easier to implement, not that the original way was hard, just it’s now a little cleaner looking. Also the old version works, though if you wouldn’t mind updating, then I don’t have to worry about it. Since I just launched I am guessing there are only like 5 people out there using it. This improvement was suggested by Perkiset at the Cache
I have added in smart scaling of the BookerBox link, it will scale down to a correct size so it wont blow out the side of the BookerBox when you have a skinny box. You can see an example of this on the examples page. The last item, ‘your just being silly’ shows the scaling.