I've been looking in the archives, but didn't find relevant thread: what do
you think about on-demand forms?
By "on-demand form" I mean document containing some structured data, which
can be edited by clicking on value and saying "abracadabra", what
ajaxmagically changes a line into a input field.
Ok, there is no need for "abracadabra", but it still works with it.
Main pros:
* full coherence between presentation and edit layouts,
* no need to reloading when going from reading to editing.
Cons:
* less place for even short instructions,
* values submitted one-by-one via AJAX,
* risk of unintentional clicking,
* potential necessity of hacking some well-known interface behaviors:
selecting text may need special JS function ("Copy to clipboard") to avoid
clicking on text.
I am working now on some guidelines for a kind of address book: in prototype
user could look into contact's information sheet and then - by clicking
"edit" - go to editing form, which visual structure was confunding different
from sheet's structure.
I suppose that allowing by-click edition should be great improvement in this
case (quite simple data, relatively rare changing), but every opinion is
welcome.
Greetings,
Kordian
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