Re: [Fofredux-devel] Usability

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

On 8/15/06, Khaled Abou Alfa <kha...@gm...> wrote:
> Regarding the design issues, we're honestly nearly there which is
> absolutely amazing. The points I've made are just tweaks here and there
> to tighten everything up really.

Agreed. Are you going to take care of the design tweaks and check them
back in? They should just be CSS file changes mostly.

> I will sort out the icons and send them later on this evening as well.
>
>
> Usability 1:
> 1.1 When you login you're in the Frame View rather than the admin
> section - We've discussed this before just putting it down on the list
> effectively)
>
> 1.2 When you hover over one of the feed items in the list of feed names
> on the left hand side should change to a light blue colour. This
> effectively tells the user exactly where they are. It's a great visual
> aid that makes things simpler to use.
> I know how to do this if it's a list however I'm finding it a bit
> difficult getting that effect with the current code. Any ideas?

Just add :hover with the  structure path in the CSS. It would be
actually nice to convert the feed list into a list anyways - tables
were just easier for right now :p

> 1.3 Getting rid of the frame borders. Now I have personally gotten rid
> of them on my install. Of course the problem with this however is that
> you don't have the flexibility to change the sizes as you please. I
> understand this isn't great, however what's good is that even for really
> large feed names they wrap around so even if we did fix the width I
> don't think it would render things unusable or anything like that, just
> not as flexible. Thoughts?

Frameset will be replaced with CSS overflow. One option would be to
make the size of the sidebar user-overridable.

>
> 1.4 I was thinking that it would great if when you click refresh views
> the screen goes dark and an animation starts as a visual indicator to
> the user that things are happily going along in the background (for an
> example check my site, under www.brokenkode.com/illustration
>

Well, I'm thinking that when Ajax'd - update will dynamically update
feed # and add items. What do you think? The syncronycity of FoFRedux
is my one problem with it vs. a desktop browser. Being able to still
read & mark items while there is an update would be very nice.

>
> Design 2 - This is mainly to have a list of things that we need to sort
> out so please add as you see more items that I might have missed:
Agreed that all these changes are good.


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