That is not the consensus that I saw :-) I think Dick was advocating for an inline update box like Twitter's, which I think is the same thing you preferred. Correct?
What I'm planning to do right now (for issue ESME-302) is take the current update box and insert it unchanged into the tag and conversation views. If we want to change it to make it behave more like Twitter's update box, then it will still only involve changing one template. On a related note: I'm starting to think that Lift's templating mechanism is actually pretty nice now that I'm figuring it out! We're going to go from 2 -> 1 message template as well! Ethan On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe <[email protected]>wrote: > So seems we have settled for the Streamie version of the update box? Sounds > good to me... > > Do we want to keep the current update box or should we redesign it? Make it > smaller maybe? > > /Anne > > > On 5 November 2010 10:39, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Me too. I've created a Jira - > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ESME-302 > > > > I'm not going to be able to implement this until this evening at the > > earliest, but probably later, so if anyone has more ideas, keep them > > coming. > > Either here or on the Jira issue. > > > > Ethan > > > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Richard Hirsch < > [email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> But don't you think moving the update box to the main template would > > > >> eat up space? > > > >> > > > > > > > > Yes, exactly. This is why I'm proposing changing the form-factor of > the > > > > update box when we do this, or going with something different > entirely, > > > like > > > > you talk about below. > > > > > > > > > > > >> I'd like more of an inline update box like that from twitter rather > > > >> than from seesmic web. > > > >> > > > > > > > > I think there is definitely an argument to be made here. Now that the > > > > templates have been refactored, it would not be difficult to put the > > > update > > > > box inline on the tag and conversation pages. So maybe that is a good > > > first > > > > step? > > > > > > > > The question is - does the behavior change on those pages, because if > > it > > > is > > > > inline I think users will expect to automatically post with a tag or > in > > a > > > > conversation, depending on the context. If we do something more like > > > > Streamie or Seesmic (where the update box is clearly part of the > header > > > and > > > > not the timeline), then it is clear that the update box always works > > the > > > > same no matter where you are, and if you want to use a tag or do a > > reply > > > > then it is up to you (the user) to do that. > > > > > > Like the idea of adding tags automatically or automatically adding the > > > message to conversation. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > >> > 1. Have something like Twitter.com's new interface where there is > > > always > > > >> a > > > >> > small text box displayed and clicking on it expands to a full > > > >> message-input > > > >> > interface. > > > >> > > > > >> > 2. Have something like streamie.org's interface where the > > > message-input > > > >> area > > > >> > slides down from the header upon request (thought I think if we do > > > this > > > >> we > > > >> > should make it more "in your face" than Streamie's > implementation). > > > >> > > > >> Could we "borrow" that CSS code from streamie? > > > >> > > > > > > > > Streamie is under a BSD license, so I think the answer is yes, though > > we > > > > might have to put something in our NOTICE file. Not sure. > > > > > > > > If we decide to go the Streamie route (slide out update box), then I > > > think > > > > it will be easier to redo it ourselves. We can use the Streamie CSS > and > > > > Javascript as an example, but I think in the end we'll want to use > > JQuery > > > > animations because they work cross-browser. I'm not sure what Ube > used > > in > > > > Streamie. > > > > > > > > Ethan > > > > > > > > > >
