On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:30, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We need a consistent way to handle document references in UIs. > > For example, on the rename template, the title is "Renaming <string > serialization of a reference here>". > Thus if the page is named "?." in the space "Main" for example we get: > "Renaming Main.?\." > Same for the wysiwyg editor's insert link dialog box (under the title we have > the technical reference printed). > > Proposal > ======= > > Since references are technical I don't think we should print them in the UI. > > Instead we should print its constituents: wiki, space, page (or just space, > page when not in multiwiki or when handling a ref not from the current wiki). > > This is what Caty has done in the Search UI BTW. Thus I propose to reuse her > idea and print this: > > wiki >> space >> page > > where >> is the HTML Å symbol. > > You can check visually what I mean here: > http://playground.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch?text=test&x=0&y=0 > > Thus applying this to the example above, we would have: > > "Renaming Main >> ?." > > And thus this removes the technical aspects: > * no ":" or "." to separate wiki and space > *no character escaping > > WDYT? Any other idea to achieve the same result ?
+1 for no reference syntax in the UI Now how to show it in the UI is another subject and i don't have precise idea, search UI looks nice enough to me. What is sure is that we need a common tool to show a reference in the UI and to use everywhere as much as possible. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
