Just a thought re. dotted lines and focus indication ...
Mimi Yin wrote:
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 only problem I might foresee is that people's interaction with
Scooby as a Web app will be informed by their interaction with other Web
apps.
They will likely assume (for better or for worse) a certain set of
conventions shared between all the browser-based apps they use -- like
the dotted line around focused elements that you see in Internet
Explorer. That's pretty universally understood in the browser by people
using IE as meaning "this thing has focus."
I'm not even sure if this is something you can override, so the idea of
simply not using it to represent selection in Scooby may not be an option.
That's not to say we should never depart from conventions, but we should
do it thoughtfully, when there are compelling reasons to do it, and with
the awareness that it will cause users some consternation because we are
not only not leveraging existing conventions, we are contravening them.
Matthew
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