Yahoo seems to think it would be a useful feature. 
It depends on what you want to do with it. On my site, nothing was really intended to be dragged around, and things won't fit any better in other spots than where they are now... On the other hand, the stuff in the sidebar on my blog already lets the user fiddle with it. If a person wants to see one section above all others, that could make sense.
If your design is more flexible, people might actually take advantage. You'll need some way to make the objects 'remember' where people dropped them; I use cookies on my blog.
Sorry for the Shamus self promotion, but visit http://blog.forrestcroce.com/ and click around without leaving the home page. Click [hide] under the top post, Winter in Paradise. Now you've got the second story without scrolling, or at least much of it. Now, click the same hide button, but this time next to the category tree. You've just created a cookie ... hit refresh, or go to Google and come back; the tree will stay hidden. I don't use a cookie to remember whether a post is hidden because that changes based on what you're doing, and when I make a new post. Try clicking the '...' next to the word 'tags' underneath. That one uses a cookie.
I don't even look at the cookies, server-side. I just let the browser pick them up and use the show/hide value inside.
You might have talked me into giving it a try. |
