Re: [Semediawiki-user] Semantic Forms: formlink: title parameter.

[Yaron K. <ya...@wi...>]

Okay, I'll think about it. Yeah, "Edit" would make sense if it already
exists - I was too lazy to add that in to the example.

I didn't want to make Semantic Forms require Validator. Now that SMW 1.6
requires Validator, it makes sense for SF to start using its functionality
too.

-Yaron

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Van de Bugger <van...@gm...>wrote:

> Automatic text is ok and would be suitable in many cases. (Why "Create"?
> It may be "Edit" or "Update", not always "Create". It should depend on
> link color, blue or red.)
>
> But I want to have ability to specify the text manually. For example, at
> my site there is a namespace "Region", form "Region" (and template
> "Region"). In such a case automatic tooltip would be "Edit Region:
> Region:Albania" ("Edit <Form>: <Page>"), which is not so good.
>
> There are other cases when overriding automatic tooltip would be
> desirable.
>
> BTW, I noticed every function parses its parameters... Why don't you use
> Validator for parsing parameters?
>
> Regards,
> Van.
>
> On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 17:15 -0400, Yaron Koren wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Oh yes - I forgot that MediaWiki links all have the hover text. Maybe
> > the right solution, then, is to have an automatic hover text for
> > #formlink? It could have the structure "Create <form name>" or "Create
> > <form name>: <page name>", depending on whether a target page was
> > specified. So it could look like "Create Country: Albania".
> >
> >
> > Would that work for you, or would you want custom control? And if it's
> > the latter, what sort of specific text would you want to set?
> >
> >
> > -Yaron
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Van de Bugger
> > <van...@gm...> wrote:
> >         > The "title" attribute, and hover text, are rarely used for
> >         links
> >
> >
> >         Rarely? I would say "title" attribute is used very often.
> >         Almost all
> >         internal links in MediaWiki (=> Wikipedia) has "title"
> >         attribute. Try to
> >         stop mouse over a link and see result -- a small tooltip will
> >         appear
> >         with more detailed explanation of the link target. For ordinal
> >         pages it
> >         is just a full destination page name (including namespace
> >         name). For
> >         action link tooltip explains action, often it provides
> >         keyboard
> >         shortcut.
> >
> >         I would like such a tooltip for "further results" link -- now
> >         it shows
> >         full address of Special:Ask page with all the search arguments
> >         -- looks
> >         very cryptic for ordinal user. I want to set content of
> >         tooltip via
> >         parameter, but it is a different component.
> >
> >         Van.
> >
> >
> >         On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 16:52 -0400, Yaron Koren wrote:
> >         > Hi Van,
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Thanks for this patch - it's an interesting idea. The
> >         "title"
> >         > attribute, and hover text, are rarely used for links, as far
> >         as I know
> >         > - what's a use case for this?
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > -Yaron
> >         >
> >         > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Van de Bugger
> >         > <van...@gm...> wrote:
> >         >         Hi Yaron,
> >         >
> >         >         Please consider a small patch to the formlink
> >         functon. I added
> >         >         "title"
> >         >         parameter. If specified, form link HTML element
> >         receives
> >         >         "title"
> >         >         attribute, which appears as a small tooltip if user
> >         stops a
> >         >         mouse on a
> >         >         link.
> >         >
> >         >         Thanks,
> >         >         Van.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
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