On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:57:53PM -0500, Andrew Rodland wrote: > On Thursday 19 December 2002 08:47 pm, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:43:05PM -0500, Andrew Rodland wrote: > > > Please, please, I know this is a "blue" theme, but if you're going to use > > > green, don't make it anything but "blocks we have". :) > > > > > > I would personally rather see: > > > Green -- successful blocks. > > > White* -- not tried blocks. > > > A black line -- right after the number of blocks we need. > > > > I would have a black border join the black line and go back to the left > > margin, to make it really obvious which side of the black line needs to > > be filled. If only for the benefit of people who can't tell their left > > from their right. > > I like that, if it can be done without too much hackery. > > > > > White* -- not tried blocks. > > > Yellow -- failed blocks that have retries left. > > > > Maybe getting redder with more retries? > > That's okay, but it means there are more segments. > > Additional idea: > Since each segment is a logical "chunk" of the blocks, we could set the ALT > tag for the benefit of any lynxers (linksers more likely, because lynx can't > do two things at once) who might be crazy enough to use this UI. Just > something like > > [30% retrieved] [36% waiting] | [13% wating] [10% willretry] [10% failed] > > would have all of the info in a rather compact format -- but maybe it's not > as > convenient as properly text-based. :) Seems reasonable. Some browsers show the alt tags as tooltips, which would be pretty cool. > > Cheers > --hobbs > > P.S. I could _try_ to code the insides of this, if you'd like -- I know how > to > attack it -- but I don't know much about java, especailly servlets, so > someone else would have to hand me a "skeleton", where I could just fill in > the "good parts". But I'm not sure if that would be saving anyone work > anyway. >:) Alternatively, I could just provide pseudocode if it's needed. > I'm guessing that it's simple enough that it's not. > > > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
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