Sorry about the delayed response, but I agree with Daphne. :) Re: Antranig's suggestion, we may want to do some more thinking (and perhaps storyboarding) about what happens when there are explicit "Save" and "Canel" buttons and a user clicks outside the field. I will add that to our design questions for Inline edit. My initial thought is that if explicit save is there, they should have to press it to save a change. The reason the save button is there is to make sure the user indicates they definitely want the changes they have made before saving.
If anyone can think of a context where it would help for the action (save or cancel) which occurs when the user clicks out of the field to be configurable, definitely let us know. (Again my initial thought is that if there wasn't a need to press the button to save, they would just the use regular inline edit with no buttons.) Also, I agree with Eli, +1 for <Esc> for cancel. It's sort of progressive enhancement if someone happens to know about it, and the likelihood of it hurting someone who doesn't is very low (e.g. how often do you press 'esc' when editing?). Cheers, Allison On Jun 25, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Eli Cochran wrote: > +1 for supporting <Esc> for Cancel. It's a bit nerdy and a lot users > won't know to do it. But there is some precedent for it. > > - Eli > > On Jun 25, 2008, at 10:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> Here is my view - >> >> If there are no visible explicit controls for Save/Cancel for the >> individual >> field, focusing away from the field should commit the edit and not >> cancel it. >> If there are visible controls, it should be configurable whether >> focusing >> away leaves the field editable, or commits the edit. >> >> I think the important consideration is to not easily lose the >> user's work, >> which would be very irritating - and to support the primary and >> natural >> use of the widget which is to actually edit the text :) >> >> Hitting <enter> in a field is actually already an overloaded >> operation - users >> used to Web 1.0 expect this to cause a form submission rather than >> just a local >> commitment. Perhaps we should support <Esc> as a keyboard-driven >> cancel >> operation, or else provide a dedicated button, rather than have >> cancellation >> to be the "default function"? >> >> Cheers, >> A. >> >> >> Quoting Michelle D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> To add to the question, when should a 'cancel' happen and when >>> should >>> a 'save' happen. >>> >>> On 25-Jun-08, at 11:40 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, Allison and Daphne, >>>> >>>> I wanted to double-check one of the interactions on the inline >>>> editor, >>>> to make sure we've got it right. >>>> >>>> The current interaction in question is this: >>>> The only way to save an edit is to press Enter. >>>> >>>> i.e. if you're editing a field and you move focus away from the >>>> field >>>> by pressing Tab of clicking on something else, any changes to the >>>> field are lost. >>>> >>>> You can experiment with this on >>>> >>> >> http://build.fluidproject.org/fluid/sample-code/inline-edit/announcements/announcements.html >>>> or >>>> >>> >> http://build.fluidproject.org/fluid/tests/fluid-tests/manual/inline-edit/InlineEdit.html >>>> >>>> So the question is: Is it correct that tabbing away or clicking >>>> elsewhere causes changes to be lost? >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fluid-work mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . > > Eli Cochran > user interaction developer > ETS, UC Berkeley > > Allison Bloodworth Senior User Interaction Designer Educational Technology Services University of California, Berkeley (415) 377-8243 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
