On 7-Jul-08, at 1:50 PM, Gary Thompson wrote: > Do we have a context of use where the user is editing "nothing"? It > seems that all of the comparative analysis and contexts of use in > the design of inline edit point to having something already existing > to edit. > > If the condition exists where the user has not yet entered > information, then it should probably be populated with a default > message like "Click here to enter description" (from the lightbox > collection view). This also becomes the cue to the user that they > can inline edit said information. > > Then the existing information (whether user entered or a default > message) provides the "width" of the inline edit field.
Gary, thanks for your input. Filling in an 'empty' field with a default message is going to be the default behaviour. However, comments last month on the thread "Inline Edit - clearing the field" indicated that there are *some* situations in which leaving the field empty is desirable, and that implementors should have that option. The problem was that if the field was empty, it collapsed to virtually 0 width, so hovering over didn't result any apparent style changes, so you couldn't tell it was there. -- Anastasia Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
