On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 03/31/2010 11:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: >> >> On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Vincent Massol 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 HTMLÅ 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. > > Maybe / would be good as a separator. It's respecting the directory/file > separator, it's also used in the URLs. it's familiar.
"/" would be ok too but provided it's displayed in a different color and appropriate spacing between reference parts and "/". I have the feeling Å provides less ambiguity since it cannot appear easily in a document name while "/" is common. Thanks -Vincent >> Another idea: >> have a rectangle box drawn with 3 internal boxes, each for a reference part >> (wiki, space, page). > > I don't like this. Boxes are visual only, and borders aren't really good > at being suggestive. > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
