Hi Yaron, On 2009-05-13 10:23, Yaron Koren wrote: > As Semantic Forms matures, it almost by necessity gets bigger - more > features, workarounds, etc. This is as it should be, but every > additional feature means more code to maintain, more to document and > more for users to understand. For that reason, it's sometimes good to > remove features that turn out to be unnecessary, when possible. I'm > thinking currently of the "choosers" input, which lets users add > instances of multiple-instance templates from one place. You can see it > in action here: > > http://discoursedb.org/wiki/Special:AddData/Item2/Choosers_test > > ...and here's how the form is defined: > > http://discoursedb.org/w/index.php?title=Form:Item2&action=edit > > This is a very rarely-used feature, from what I've seen, and in fact I'd > guess that most people on this list weren't even aware of its existence. > It's strictly a convenience feature; and it's possible (hopefully) that > the Header Tabs extension has made it even less necessary, by allowing > large forms to be broken up into smaller sections. > > In any case, I'm thinking of removing it from Semantic Forms. Does > anyone have any opinions one way or the other?
I agree that it's probably a rarely used feature, and that using HeaderTabs is more intuitive for most (form) users than the chooser solution. What I'd love to see is some degree of interaction between HeaderTabs and SemanticForms, to solve problems like mandatory field validation warnings causing confusion for the user [1] and also problems as described in [2]. Patrick. [1]: http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms/browse_thread/thread/f863512b6c3d406f# [2]: http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms/msg/633d281b200c5f71 -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
