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Hi. I’ve got a bit of a confusing question.
The site I’m working on has a collection of press releases. I’d like to implement something that allows a user to be viewing a press release and go forward to the next release or backwards. The problem is that not all of the releases are hosted by me. Some of them are on external sites that I have no control over. I’ve been trying to think of ways to create a “next/prev” navigation tool, and I remembered the old Ask Jeeve’s page.
Remember the old Ask Jeeves site? After you searched and followed a link, there would be this overlay on top of the ask jeeves search bar. Everywhere you went, that bar followed you. It was rather annoying. How was that done? This sort of “persistent site overlay” is one of the ideas I had to create my tool. My “next/prev” buttons could be in the persistent overlay, and follow the user off my site, hopefully carrying information with it (as a cookie, I guess?). Then they’d be able to continue browsing forward and backward.
Does anyone know if this is even possible? How the heck was that even implemented? I’m having a hell of a time researching this because I don’t even know what to call it. Does anyone know if there’s a real name for this “persistent site overlay”?