On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've posted a document that describes how we could better support >> bookmarklets: >> >> http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/user-experience/bookmarklets >> >> Let me know if you have any feedback! > > > From a UI/mock perspective, the chevron reminds me of the Windows Quick > Launch bar chevron, and I would expect things to work similarly: > * The chevron only appears when there are more icons hiding > * All items in the dropdown menu get an icon (we give ones without one a > default "page" icon a la tabs with no favicon -- this also sidesteps your > comment about only being able to promote bookmarklets with icons) > * I can easily make this area bigger/smaller or manage the icons in it and > its dropdown (you allude to this at the end as a possibility, I would want > it for sure, probably via drag-and-drop; and I would want to be able to move > things from the main bar into the dropdown, not just the other way) > Agreed. > > I suggest "Delete" instead of "Remove..." for consistency with Windows UI. > Agreed. I blame Glen :) > > It would be nice to support dragging bookmarklets to the bookmarks bar > since that is what people expect in current browsers. If we want to enforce > a single point of UI access for them, we could then animate the bookmarklet > "flying" over to the chevron and blink the chevron or something. We should > also think about how the UX will work when importing bookmarklets from other > browsers. > Dragging bookmarklets to the bookmarks bar would work the same way as it does now; I think it'd be confusing to do something fancy here. > > A la the search boxes of Fx 2+ and IE 7+, we could subtly highlight the > chevron when on a page that provides some bookmarklets the user doesn't > have, and/or append a section to the bottom of the dropdown like "Add <xxx>" > where <xxx> is a bookmarklet the page contains. > I had something like this in my first draft of this, but someone pointed out that people could use this to spam the UI ("Install the free p0rn bookmarklet!"). Arguably this is also true of existing feed subscription mechanisms, and hasn't occured there, so maybe that's a non-issue. > > PK > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
