Imagine this is a blog.
To save space on your home page you have a only short, punchy, overview of your post here, with a link to the full post. This is space efficient, but means that to read the full post the reader has to wait for a slow page load. You want your reader to get to the full post without the annoying page load, and yet retain a short home page. So what are you going do?
With a few snippets of Javascript we make the full post slide out, avoiding the page reload. The full post is usually a neglible addition to the total size of the page, so the loading time for your home page is not dramatically affected.
There's more: when you've finished reading you can click the same link to close the post, avoiding clutter on the home page. The best of both worlds? You bet!
Noel Welsh Last modified: Wed Jul 6 17:25:11 BST 2005