+1 .. more consistency the better for everyone! Sanjiva.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Chanaka Jayasena <chan...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are planning to improve the forms generally considering usability > aspects in all products. > > 1 . Look and feeling of the forms. > We have differences in the layout and look and feeling of forms in > different UI components. Since this is taking away overall consistency in > our user interfaces, we need to define standards and stick to those in all > our UI components. > > 2. Validation > I think we can improve client side validation by following some of the best > practices listed on the following article. > > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/07/web-form-validation-best-practices-and-tutorials/ > In-fact we have a validation framework built in to our UI core, which > implement some of these concepts. But it's only used for the proxy service > UI component. Plan is to extend this to all the other components as well. > > 3. Autocomplete > We are using autocomplete feature in registry search UI component. I think > it will be good if we can reuse this on other components as well, when > ever suitable. > > 4. Inline help and tips. > Place a helpful icon right next to each field which are not self > explaining. > > 5. Default text for text boxes. > > I prepared several screen shots with Amal using two different UI components > to present these ideas. But we are not clear about when to start these > improvements. > > thanks, > Chanaka > > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > Carbon-dev@wso2.org > http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: sanj...@wso2.com; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 650 265 8311 blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
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