backbars

Once you have it, browse to any Wikipedia page with tables and among Wikipedia's tabs at the top, you'll see the "backbars" tab.

elzr 2009

“I think the next step will be digital developments like backbars, favicons, sparklines, word coloring, spacings.”

Backbars: How ambient visual data can make news sites user-friendly » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

The backbars don't replace the count they represent, what they do is convey you its magnitude unobtrusively, and, crucially, compare that magnitude to those around it.

elzr 2009

I did try the backbars on a lighter color but they become hard to see

elzr 2009

I wanted to make the MeFi backbars work take each day as their context

elzr 2009

I did try the backbars on a lighter color but they become hard to see

elzr 2009

I've contemplated overloading the backbars by varying t …

elzr 2009

Sergio G.: I'm glad you like both the reader and the backbars!

elzr 2009

Six years later, Harris might use the money to pay his rent and utilities, or fix up these backbars in his shop.

Local Headlines - ABC 13 2009

I've contemplated overloading the backbars by varying their intensity but that would easily make text hard to read, which I guess was the reason you dropped them, right?

elzr 2009