Mike Pogue wrote: > Hey everybody...I had some comments/suggestions on the install > mockup. Assuming that this is the right place to post them -- I've > been thinking about how to make Solaris install an 11 (on a scale of > 1 to 10...), so here's my first comment/suggestion(s). >
Yes, this is the place. > 1) On the root password screen, I would love to see a "password > strength indicator", similar to what Google does here: > > https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&hl=en > > > Try typing something in the Choose a Password box, and it dynamically > estimates the strength of your password. Nice. > Interesting idea, I think I'd seen it other places, too, but it hadn't occurred to me to use it here. We'll look into it. > 2) Generally, I think the NEXT> button shouldn't be enabled, unless > I've done the right thing. So, on that same root password page, if > the root password doesn't match in the two boxes, it shouldn't let me > move on by clicking NEXT>. (Maybe it also should tell me right away > with some sort of warning icon next to the text box, rather than > allowing me to do it wrong and then giving me an error message, > asking me to click <BACK to try again, etc.) This same principle > probably applies elsewhere, e.g. disable NEXT> until I've clicked the > "I accept the license" radio button. > Generally, that would be the case in the real implementation; this first prototype was mostly designed to get some very high-level reaction to the basic outline and ideas, so we didn't bother with some of the niceties like this. Thanks for the comments! Dave
