Hi Kaloyan, recently completed updates to the PubMed en español search engine. We used Ajax/PHP/MySQL for the automatic term suggestion. Check it out at www.cerebroperiferico.com/medline All the very best, Daniel
-----Mensaje original----- De: Kaloyan Raev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Viernes, 05 de Mayo de 2006 5:15 Para: care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Asunto: Re: [Care2002-developers] Care2x beta 2.1.6 released Hi Lopo, Thank you for the positive feedback. Your suggestions for usability enhancements are valuable. I hope there is somebody in the community with deeper understanding in PHP and AJAX that would like to help for these features. Greetings Kaloyan On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 20:54 +0100, Lopo de Almeida wrote: > Hi, > > | From: Kaloyan Raev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | To: Care2002-developers <care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > | Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:19:29 +0300 > | Subject: [Care2002-developers] Care2x beta 2.1.6 released > | Reply-To: care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > | > | It is time for new beta release. > > Congratulations. Great work, indeed. > > Sincerely I'm fully convinced that Raev was an excelent choice to keep the > stuff roling. Thank you, especially, and all that continue to move this boat > forward. > > Now! Some, hopefully, positive criticism :D ;) > > How about Ajax and/or Prototype'd? Any plans on that direction? > I think there still exist some interface issues needing to be solved so I > would like to give here my ideas and opinions, if you don't mind. > > == Three proposals == > 1. Lightbox for the modal popup windows > http://ajaxian.com/archives/lightbox-v20-released > Also Moo.fx at http://mad4milk.com > 2. Ajax to avoid full window loading > http://ajaxian.com/archives/round-up-of-50-ajax-toolkits-and-frameworks > (search "AJAX PHP Frameworks") > I like Xajax, Xoad, Aardvark (from HelpCenterLive) and Dojo > 3. IFrame for extended content (Ajax is good for smaller packs). > Neverthless, the IFrame can me generated JIT using Ajax too. > > The article at > http://borkweb.com/story/ajax-templating-and-the-separation-of-layout-and-lo gic > is very nice for an introduction on how things work. The article at > http://bennolan.com/behaviour/ (and http://bennolan.com/behaviour/more.html) > is also important, I think. This can tur the app faster and the interface > cleaner. > > == One request (please, please) == > > Stop using <frames> hence users will never see *all* options. > If logged as admin user will see some, as nurse will see others, as doctor > others, etc, etc. phpGACL was used for this right? > > Anonymous users could just read the basic news hence this could be a profile. > > For the demo it would be much better to give people the option to choose from > several diferent user types on logging in. This system isn't more complex > than most of the CMS in what concerns user-types definition. > > With Ajax: http://ajaxpatterns.org/Direct_Login > Without Ajax could be viewed in any CMS and the present left box serves well. > > This is a question of Usability. People don't need to have any links in the > screen that they are not allowed to use. > > "You are not authorized to see this resource" is a bad Usability error because > it makes the user spend useless time and get more nervous if under stress. > And we are talking about healthcare services, right? > > Most of you surely know Jacob Nielsen's "Medical Usability: How to Kill > Patients Through Bad Design" at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050411.html > > Altough this refers to errors on interface doesn't specificaly mention this > "dead end design" that could and should be avoid at design. Software cannot > be design expecting that the admin user at location remembers to solve this. > > A few links on this: > > http://www.health.gov/communication/literacy/quickguide/services.htm > http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/ijlink?linkType=FULL&journalCode=bmj&resid=32 8/7449/1143 > http://www.drc-gb.org/publicationsandreports/report.asp > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=286837&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE > http://e-healthexpert.org/whartoncomplexity > http://e-healthexpert.org/node/365 > http://e-healthexpert.org/node/338 > > I only mention this because my feeling is that you are still too much > concentrated in the code itself and are forgetting the Usability and > Accessibility issues. > > There is a Usability project at Open Usability fro quite some time now: > > http://openusability.org/projects/care2x > > For now just me, raev and Sean are subscribed. > We need more people there to discuss this issues. > > Sorry if I offend someone. My native tongue is not english so I lack some > roundness in language and still make toons of grammar and typo mistakes. > It was not intended and I apologize in advance for any mistake made. > > Best and thanks, > > Lopo > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Care2002-developers mailing list > Care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? 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