+1 Thanks & regards, -Prabath
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Chanaka Jayasena <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > We are planning to improve the forms generally considering usability aspects > in all products. > 1 . Look and feeling of the forms. > We have differences in the layout and look and feeling of forms in different > UI components. Since this is taking away overall consistency in our user > interfaces, we need to define standards and stick to those in all our UI > components. > 2. Validation > I think we can improve client side validation by following some of the best > practices listed on the following article. > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/07/web-form-validation-best-practices-and-tutorials/ > In-fact we have a validation framework built in to our UI core, which > implement some of these concepts. But it's only used for the proxy service > UI component. Plan is to extend this to all the other components as well. > 3. Autocomplete > We are using autocomplete feature in registry search UI component. I think > it will be good if we can reuse this on other components as well, when > ever suitable. > 4. Inline help and tips. > Place a helpful icon right next to each field which are not self explaining. > 5. Default text for text boxes. > I prepared several screen shots with Amal using two different UI components > to present these ideas. But we are not clear about when to start these > improvements. > thanks, > Chanaka > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > -- Thanks & Regards, Prabath http://blog.facilelogin.com http://RampartFAQ.com _______________________________________________ Carbon-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev
