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.
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.
An add button at the bottom, and individual remove buttons take care of the rest.
Daniel
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.
Check out what I'm doing on OG Boston now for something that I consider to be a slightly better solution.
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
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:32:53AM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 12:22:23PM +0100, Daniel Alexander Smith wrote:
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.
How about a sort of semi-autocompleted tag list like del.icio.us has now. Do you think that would work?
David
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 05:23:51PM +0100, David Sheldon wrote:
How about a sort of semi-autocompleted tag list like del.icio.us has now. Do you think that would work?
I'd like that a lot. I have a fragment of the AJAX necessary demo'ed at: http://downlode.org/Code/Perl/openguides-hacking/node_selector.html
The clicky-put-in-listy stuff isn't there (my JavaScript is terrible) but I suspect that would be the least difficult part.
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:28:25AM +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 05:23:51PM +0100, David Sheldon wrote:
How about a sort of semi-autocompleted tag list like del.icio.us has now. Do you think that would work?
I'd like that a lot. I have a fragment of the AJAX necessary demo'ed at: http://downlode.org/Code/Perl/openguides-hacking/node_selector.html
The clicky-put-in-listy stuff isn't there (my JavaScript is terrible) but I suspect that would be the least difficult part.
Do you have the source of agax.cgi available to look at?
Cheers,
Dominic.
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:44:05AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
http://downlode.org/Code/Perl/openguides-hacking/node_selector.html
Do you have the source of agax.cgi available to look at?
Sure. http://downlode.org/Code/Perl/openguides-hacking/ajax.txt
Note: "OpenGuides::Utils::Hacking" is a convenience module I hacked up to quickly create a database handle and OG object -
http://downlode.org/Code/Perl/openguides-hacking/lib/OpenGuides/Utils/Hackin...
Incidentally, if anyone's going to look at this, it would really be great to be able to drop the script.aculo.us library. I'd be really reluctant for us to have to distribute it since most of it would be useless overhead (plus there's stuff like fade-in/out on those dropdowns, which is also useless and slows things down).
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