Mimi Yin wrote:
But what if the web convention was a band-aid solution to make up for a lack of desktop functionality? And now that we're able to implement desktop functionality, do we still want the band-aid solution on top of the real solution?
I guess maybe it got lost in all the discussion back and forth, but in my e-mail I was trying to emphasize that the 'dotted line to indicate focus' is not a Web-only bandaid solution. It's not something to make up for lack of desktop functionality in the browser.
It's a ubiquitous Windows convention used to indicate either focus or focus/selection.
The same little dotted line to indicate focus on UI elements shows up whether you're in a Web form in IE or Mozilla, or in the Settings panel for HomeSite, or in the Windows Network Setup Wizard, or whatever.
I think in Scooby, we should allow users to Navigate between Days of the Week by just Selecting the Day of the Week, rather than having to do the whole Focus + Enter thing. This kind of Auto-Selection is exactly the kind of interaction that makes Desktop apps feel smooth.
I think this is a great idea. I can take a quick look-see at how easy it would be to add basic event-to-event navigation for Scooby that works this way. It already works that way for a single click on an event lozenge.
I'm a bit confused here though, because initially this discussion (I think) started off with the idea of showing 'tentative' status events with the essentially the same dotted line normally used to indicate focus. How would you indicate that an event has focus/selection if it already had something as its border that looked exactly like a focus indication?
If the idea is to blow off focus indication completely for lozenges and just select the event outright, then it might be a moot point. :)
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