[OGDev] Categories box

Daniel Alexander Smith daniel at pling.net
Sun Apr 2 15:49:52 BST 2006


On 2 Apr 2006, at 14:32, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 12:22:23PM +0100, Daniel Alexander Smith  
> wrote:
>>
>> On 1 Apr 2006, at 22:57, Earle Martin wrote:
>>
>>> How would people feel about switching the categories box to comma-
>>> separated
>>> rather than one-per-line? I think it would be a UI improvement.
>>
>> What about going all the way and making comma-separated the default,
>> while also checking to see if the browser has javascript support, and
>> having one input box per category.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "One input box per category" -- you  
> mean a
> list of categories with checkboxes? If so, you should be aware that on
> larger guides this isn't really viable -- I tried something similar
> (with a 'tag list' style output, more condensed than anything else  
> I can
> think of) and it got really long.

I mean a dynamic list.

> Check out what I'm doing on OG Boston now for something that I  
> consider
> to be a slightly better solution.

Which you've basically already implemented there.


Daniel





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