Davor, are you thinking of the outline around text fields to
communicate keyboard-mouse focus?
I think so long as we don't also use a dotted line to represent
selection in Chandler or Scooby, we should be okay.
Users don't need to be able to decipher the visual syntax just by
looking at the calendar. They will learn the visual syntax through
interaction (cause and effect). Assuming performance improvements,
users should be be okay on this front.
The event status is not a commonly used feature in calendar, so most
people won't ever encounter this on their calendars.
Mimi
On Apr 30, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Davor Cubranic wrote:
Mimi Yin wrote:
Believe it or not, Priscilla and I have done another pass at the
Tentative event status.
Tentative Event 5 (Thur @5PM) as seen in the Scooby demo, adds a
dotted outline around the entire lozenge. We played around with
this idea back in January, but I wasn't sure if the effect was too
subtle. And I feel like anything more obvious (e.g. 2 pixel dotted
line instead of a 1 pixel dotted outline) would be too noisy.
I think a 1-pixel outline looks too much like "selection" in some
applications. But 2-pixel outline would look a bit too jagged
because it alternates colour and white pixels. Maybe a similarly
visible but more pleasing effect would be to make this outline
fuzzier by playing with the colours and their saturation?
Davor
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