I'll start by admitting that the way I referred to HotCat was unnecessarily dismissive, and apologizing for this. HotCat was certainly a step in the right direction for usability, and my work extends and improves on the ideas in HotCat.
On 16/09/2009, at 4:37 PM, Daniel Schwen wrote: >> * It isn't localised. >> * It breaks if translations or aliases of the Category namespace are >> used. > That is one point (the aliases). Localisation is otherwise irrelevant, > as there is nothing to localize. > >> * It adds random text to the category display, instead of using nice >> icons. > Why would you call the + - and +/- links "random text"? And why would > icons be "nice"?! It isn't really clear what + and - mean in the context, it's much clearer what "Add Category" means (admittedly I've made the same mistake in having a garbage bin as the icon for "remove"). This, of course, needs localisation. I think that if your software has user interaction components, and has nothing to localise, then your interface isn't well-designed. With that said, there is *one* localisable component of HotCat (the edit summary) that is not localised. > >> * It doesn't prompt for an edit summary, nor does it provide any sort >> of confirmation. > Confirmation should be evedent, as the page reloads with the category > list changed. An edit summary is provided automatically I think it's good to allow people to summarize their edits, and confirm that they want to make them. >> * Prompts for confirmation and an edit summary before making an edit. > Hm, that is somewhat of an inconvenience if you have to change > multiple categories, or does your version gather changes and submit > them in one edit and one summary? No, but that would certainly be a good idea. -- Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org http://werdn.us/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
