On 03/31/2010 01:29 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > 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 feelingÅ > provides less ambiguity since it cannot appear easily in a document name > while "/" is common.
Yes, of course it should have spacing and secondary color. An alternative is the solidus ⁄ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidus_%28punctuation%29 > 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 -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
