Hi all,
In an ideal world we'd have the icons we wanted picked out, and could
rely on the tooltip to give folks the information about what exactly
they were. I do believe it would be best to to use the sort of
standard, mirrored arrow-type Undo and Redo icons (e.g. a la Microsoft
Word, see the Undo & Redo icons on this page: http://www.readyicons.com/iconset-preview.php?id=11)
, but wasn't able to find a free version that I liked when I looked.
If we are just uing Undo, I think the icon we have is OK for now. If
we are also testing Redo, it would be better to have text if we can't
find better icons. I can take another look around for some tomorrow.
Allison
On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Daphne Ogle wrote:
I'm voting for a text link rather than icons.
-Daphne
On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Eli Cochran wrote:
Daphne,
I agree with you that there will probably be some confusion around
Undo and Redo. I'm not sure I understand what you are suggesting.
There is already a tooltip for Undo/Redo (at least there is in FF,
I just used the title tag). Are you saying that you would also like
a label next to or under the icon?
Let me know. I'll revisit this tomorrow.
- Eli
On Aug 26, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Daphne Ogle wrote:
Looks good Eli! Nice work!
A couple of things:
- Until we come up with a meaningful icon I vote for using text
to make it clear what the user can do. The addition of undo adds
some challenge for the user to not only figure out what one icon
does but what 2 siimilar only mirrored icons do. Because of their
similarity its also more difficult to distinguish between them and
when they change.
- Just an FYI for everyone -- there is still a debate about the
usefulness and need for redo in the simple text field edit context
here. We are hoping user testing will help us better understand
the tradeoffs of adding the complexity versus how often redo is
actually needed.
-Daphne
On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Justin wrote:
Hi Eli,
I've been checking it out today. It looks good.
I've added it to the Inline Edit QA test plan. Now we will be
able to do QA testing on the undo/redo functionality.
Thanks
Justin
On 26-Aug-08, at 3:34 PM, Eli Cochran wrote:
Hi folks,
The Section Info based inline edit sample is pretty much done.
There is a little bit of accessibility work to be done with the
Undo/Redo, Undo/Redo is in the wrong tab order because I'm
floating it right. I'm doing this for formatting reasons and I
can fix it with a little more sophisticated markup when I get a
chance. Also when you activate Undo or Redo, the focus should
stay on the Undo/Redo link.
But other than that, I think that it's in good shape. Certainly
good enough for testing and for beta.
Inline Edit and the Undo code are very fun to work with. Kudos
to those who developed on the code. Very easy to implement.
Well, I had a little trouble with Undo, but once Colin helped me
with an undocumented and slightly confusing API change, it
worked like a charm.
Please check it out:
http://build.fluidproject.org/fluid/sample-code/inline-edit/section-info/section-info.html
- Eli
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