Robin Bowes Wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to suggest a change to the interface used by the Fishbone > skin. > > Instead of each track having it's own "Next", "Play", "Add" and > "Remove" > icons, I think it would be a cleaner and more functional interface if > there were a checkbox against each line and a single drop-down list and > > button at the top/bottom of the list containing "Next", "Play", etc. > > Does that make sense? > > If it does, what do you think? Good idea? > > This would clean up the interface, i.e. it would look less clutter. It > > would also allow for adding, say, 4 out of 8 tracks to the playlist > (e.g. playing one symphony from two on a disk). > > Comments? Code :) The biggest usability issue I see is that you have no control of the track ordering in the playlist when you add multiple tracks at once (unless your JavaScript can keep track of the order in which you click the checkboxes, which isn't really intuitive with the way most web forms behave).
Another is that it ends up requiring three times as many clicks to add just one track from an album. As KDF alludes, there might not even be the ability to add multiple tracks. This is more an issue at the reciveing end of the form submit, so doing it in JavaScript might be a real trick, if even possible. One way to clean up the interface (if you don't like looking at all of the controls) that is probably compatible with the current method, would be to use mouseovers to display the individual next/play/add controls. -- JJZolx Jim _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
