FWIW I find the "you can't do that" message superfluous. It took seconds only of trial and error to fix the pattern in my mind when I first encountered it on netvibes. I may not be typical, but the attraction of simplicity over complexity helps persuade me we should confirm the need for such "help".
John On 28 May 2008, at 16:41, Herb Wideman wrote: > I found when testing out the inter-column portlet movement after > reading this thread that ambiguity is generated not by the "This box > cannot be placed any higher in this column"message itself but by the > fact that this message pops up almost immediately as you start the > lateral move, implying it applies to the current column, not the one > you are moving the portlet to. My suggestion would be to delay the > appearance of the message until 60%+ of the portlet is centred over > the new column - then I think the meaning would be clear. Using the > term "locked box" as has been suggested may not seem technical to > designers, but to a general audience the word "locked" could lead to > confusion. especially for those with some impairments (if they don't > notice or can't properly interpret the little lock icon in the > locked portal). > > More generally, though, the lightbox and reorderer functionality and > ease of use now seem outstanding - congratulations to all who worked > on this! > > Herb Wideman > Senior Researcher > Institute for Research on Learning Technologies > York University > +1 > > I agree with Daphne--the error message as it stands doesn't make much > sense in that context. I would use the "This box cannot be placed > above a locked box" wording. (If we don't want to use the word > portlet, which is another potential choice but perhaps too technical, > the only other words I thought *might* make sense here are module, > section, or cell.) > > On May 23, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Daphne Ogle wrote: > >> > Nice work! In general I think it looks great. >> > >> > I'm still a little concerned about the ambiguity of the message >> about >> > dragging over a locked portlet. "This box cannot be placed any >> higher >> > in this column" doesn't make sense if I'm dragging the right >> topmost >> > portlet over the left since I'm not really trying to move it up but >> > rather over. It also doesn't tell the user what the problem is. >> What >> > about "This box cannot be placed above a locked portlet." (or box >> if >> > that 's the terminology we are using)? >> > >> > -Daphne > > _______________________________________________ > fluid-work mailing list > [email protected] > http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
