I really like it, David. Good work. :) I don't even think it would be *all* that hard to implement.
-Colin On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:55 PM, David Smith wrote: > So, we were discussing the message window on IRC tonight, and in the course > of talking through a few design issues, I remembered an ooold idea that we > never did that actually doesn't seem that hard to implement: Make the message > text field float (in a fixed position) over the message view, with a css > tweak to bump the message content up so it's not obscured. I made a few > mockups by hacking up the html from smooth op 2's topic field. Obviously not > shippable at this point, but looks pretty neat nonetheless (sample content is > not intended to make sense, bits got cut out, etc…). > > http://dscoder.com/images/tabsmockup.png > http://dscoder.com/images/notabsmockup.png > > Colin suggests that the scrollbar shouldn't be all the way at the bottom like > I have it, based on his iOS experience; I just didn't feel like fixing it in > Photoshop. Various other extensions of the concept are possible (like the > "hide, but show for use" combo you can get in Safari with hide address bar + > cmd-L). > > The cool part about this (aside from just being shiny) is that it very > clearly associates the message entry field with the message view, without > needing to wrap things in borders. > > David
