Good point about the user experience - it does have a potentially high degree of inconsistency if I make abc:null select the first entry, same as abc:1 this time and abc:2 the next. I will do as you suggest, abc:null will select nothing, and it will be up to the user to actually select something from the list. Initially I tried not to do that so that I wouldn't have to implement an unselected state for some of the widgets, but I'm seeing now that the complexity added to navigation and state management simply isn't worth it. Thanks again for the help and suggestions. Eugen.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Jens <jens.nehlme...@gmail.com> wrote: > And what about user experience? If the user actually bookmarks abc:null and > the app treats abc:null as "select the first entry in the list" then the > selection may change over time if some editing is done (adding/removing > items). If the user is unexperienced and is not interested in the "url > thing" it is maybe confusing that a bookmark gives different results over > time. > That can not be solved by a nifty url history token because the > interpretation of that token is the problem in that case. The only solution > would be to not use something like abc:null and instead to figure out which > item is the first in the list to be able to select it on an "id" basis prior > the actual place change. Or am I missing something? > > Because of the user experience with bookmarking we do not select anything > like "the first entry in that list/dropdown whatever" by default in our app. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/zGVFz_WFWKEJ. > > To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
