On Nov 21, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> On 11/19/2010 01:57 PM, Ciprian Amaritei wrote:
>> Hi Caty,
>> I suggest not to use different colors for syntax chooser buttons since some
>> readability issues may occur when changing the background color of the table
>> header. An idea would be to use different shades of gray for background as I
>> tried in the attached image.
>> 
>> Thanks Ciprian.
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)<
>> [email protected]>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> This is a proposal for compacting the way we show XWiki Syntaxes
>>> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/SyntaxExperiments
>>> 
>>> Feedback is welcomed.
> 
> Personally I don't find it useful at all to be able to display more than 
> one syntax at a time. On the contrary, it's confusing, with all the 
> different colors and strike-through, and intermixed lines. Instead of a 
> checkbox behavior, I'd like a radio button behavior.
> 
> I'd also like a global syntax switcher, since users rarely want to look 
> at mixed syntaxes.

That was my first reaction too.

> And this brings me to the main point, who is this page for, and how is 
> it going to be used?

It's the help page that you get when you click on help when in wiki edit mode.

> I think that since this is a syntax help, most people will use it as a 
> quick reference for the syntax they need to use at the moment, not as a 
> comparison tool to check which of the syntaxes is the coolest.

I agree.

Thanks
-Vincent

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