These look good, although of course it will be critically important that we get the text right, since it's essential that people understand what risks they are taking.
I think it's ok to just support reasonably recent versions of Internet Explorer, even Google doesn't support IE7. I personally think it is fine to require JavaScript be enabled, but I know that others disagree. Ian. On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:21 AM, irfan mir <theirf at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I am Irfan? a friend of Steve Dougherty and he had asked me to > further > > design his idea for Freenet's security setup. One can view his idea here: > > https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2012-July/036466.html > > > > In this email I will reiterate Steve's idea and add screenshots of my > design of > > this security setup idea. > > > > > As seen here, this is what the setup will look like in the beginning: > > http://cl.ly/image/1U0I1s1z3P18 > > As you can see, there is a main container with the title "Security Setup" > which contains a list with security options. Each option has, to the left > of > the text, a toggle-switch to turn it on, and a rightward pointing arrow. > On click of the right-ward pointing arrow, a description of that option > will appear, but more on that later. > > > > This is what the setup will look like when an arrow is clicked: > > http://cl.ly/image/2d1x3r3V0a27 > > As you can see, when an arrow next to an option is clicked, it > turns downward as a pane, that contains a description, slides down > from underneath the option's label. Clicking the arrow again causes > the description to slide up and the arrow to turn rightward again > (as seen in the first screenshot). > > > > Here is what the setup will look like when a toggle switch is clicked. > > http://cl.ly/image/111i2b0X3b3M > > Now, the html behind the toggle-switches will be radio-buttons. This > way only one toggle-switch can be turned on / one security option can > be turned on at a time. > When a toggle-switch is clicked / radio-button is selected, if not already > expanded the description of that security option slides down and > the arrow turns downward. This is good because is allows the > interface to demonstrate the functionality of the arrows when clicked > in addition to a mouseover providing hints. > Secondly, the other security options fade-out of the way. They can > and will return when the toggle-switch is clicked again or turned off. > Thirdly, another pane slides out from underneath the options. This > contains the necessary settings for that option and a submit-button > at the bottom. Each setting has an input to the right of the setting's > label / name. To the left of the label / name is an arrow which provides > an explanation / a description for that setting like the arrows of each > security option did when clicked. > The done button would complete the setup. > > Javascript and jQuery are already going to be implemented to style the > radio-buttons (toggle-switches) on clicked, as there isn't a well > supported way to do this in css, and preform the sliding and fading > effects. > We can also use JS and HTML5 to do useful things like keeping > the form valid but turning valid values green and in-valid one's red. > Its actually a better UX (User-Experience) to keep valid values the > way they are and turning in-valid ones red. > > > > > > Although challenging, this seems like something I would be willing to > develop as well. However, before I begin doing so, I would like to know > the answer to 2 questions. > > Would the freenet-devs prefer there to be support for when scripts / > javascript is disabled or turned off? > An idea to handling this is directing the user to the current setup if > so. > > And secondly, to what IE would the freenet-devs want this to be > supported? > Meaning should something as low as IE6 support it > or is 9 and above fine. In my opinion, it would be easiest and > best if we build the setup to be supported in IE9 and above and > other modern-browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera). > And then later-on make additions for support in IE8 and below > when possible. > > > > > Thoughts? > > I appreciate and welcome any and all feedback. > > Thanks in Advance & Best Regards, > Irfan. > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20120805/7cc0e65b/attachment.html>
