On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yep - still got to work on the css > > Couldn't get it perfect on the first try? Unacceptable! ;-) > > >> 2. Action creation (help will go directly into the modal dialog, I'd > >> imagine) > >> > > 2 dialogs help and creation > > I actually currently find it pretty annoying that I have to flip back > and forth between the "help" and "create" tabs. The help will only > ever be used in the "create" context, so it probably makes sense to > have it in the same view and not force the user to toggle. > What I'd like to do is use JQuery tool tips to display the help. I just finished converting the action page and just deleted the help. > > > The problem is that currently both features break the UI. The links are > too > > long and large messages look horrible. > > > > What about dialogs that aren't modal? > > I just tend to think that dialogs are the wrong UI metaphor to use for > display of information. Modal dialogs are even worse because they > block other interaction, but the modal-ness isn't the main problem in > this case. We go from requiring zero interaction to see this > information to requiring at least 2 very precise clicks - one to > trigger the dialog and one to close it. Will anyone ever look at these > things if they have to pop up a dialog to do it? I doubt it. I think > we should either leave them where they are and fix the inline display > (which I agree is broken) Good luck. Do you have suggestion of how to display a long url? Maybe with a mouse-over that displays the fulltext. > or take them out until we can come up with a > better solution (which I think is roughly equivalent to putting them > into dialogs and which I think we should do). > What about creating dialogs but not modal dialogs. > > Ethan >
