Do you have countdown from 140 as well? And url shortening? Two very nice twitter features that..
Would definitely not be cool to manually count the chars :) On 6 April 2010 22:29, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for doing this! I guess I'd leave it open until we have a more > permanent fix, but maybe lower the "badness" of the issue and make a > note of why that is happening? > > I'm actually starting to think that the best way to do this is to have > the javascript that populates the message text that is being replied > to truncate that text to 140 characters (or something). The user just > needs a sample and JS has easy functions for doing this. Hmmm. Maybe > tonight. > > What do you think? Do we want truncation or stretching as our final > fix for this issue? > > Ethan > > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe > <[email protected]> wrote: >> If we encourage our users not to use more than 140 characters (which I >> always thought we should) - we are now safe. Shall I leave the ticket open >> as this is a bit of a quick fix, seeing we haven't imposed any limits for >> how long the messages can be. (yet) >> >> /Anne >> >> >> On 4. apr. 2010, at 01.44, Ethan Jewett wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I already opened ESME-188 for this issue (the input area expanding) - >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ESME-188 >>> >>> I don't think we need to move anything. Instead, we either need to >>> restrict the total length of the "reply to" section to only display >>> part of the message being replied to, or we need to make the input >>> area background expand dynamically to accomodate varied message >>> lengths. >>> >>> Ethan >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I'll take a look at it tomorrow. >>>> We could also make the update box background a bit longer too. >>>> >>>> On 3. apr. 2010, at 18.57, Richard Hirsch wrote: >>>> >>>>> Maybe it was some other tool. Smaller font and other color (grey?) might >>>>> be >>>>> one option >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe >>>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I will take a look at it during tomorrow's daily UI hour, but smaller >>>>>> font >>>>>> might be one solution. >>>>>> twitter doesn't display the "reply to:" at all and brizzly displays an >>>>>> reply to box inline. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 3. apr. 2010, at 18.52, Richard Hirsch wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> let's look at how twitter / brizzly do it. They use a smaller font. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe < >>>>>> [email protected]>wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I like it :-) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Now sort of unrelated. >>>>>>>> I think we need to move the "reply to" function, as it currently is it >>>>>>>> pushes the Share with and Update button out of the "what are you >>>>>>>> working >>>>>> on" >>>>>>>> box. Where should we move it to? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 2. apr. 2010, at 01.33, [email protected] wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Author: esjewett >>>>>>>>> Date: Thu Apr 1 23:33:10 2010 >>>>>>>>> New Revision: 930136 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=930136&view=rev >>>>>>>>> Log: >>>>>>>>> [ESME-187] Re-arrange input area so that the flow is a little better - >>>>>>>> this is a bit of an experiment - feel free to back out >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Modified: >>>>>>>>> incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/style/style.css >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/templates-hidden/message.html >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Modified: incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/style/style.css >>>>>>>>> URL: >>>>>>>> >>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/style/style.css?rev=930136&r1=930135&r2=930136&view=diff >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> ============================================================================== >>>>>>>>> --- incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/style/style.css >>>>>>>> (original) >>>>>>>>> +++ incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/style/style.css Thu >>>>>>>>> Apr >>>>>>>> 1 23:33:10 2010 >>>>>>>>> @@ -192,10 +192,15 @@ label { >>>>>>>>> } >>>>>>>>> .login-btn, .update-btn, .submit-btn { >>>>>>>>> float:right; >>>>>>>>> -} >>>>>>>>> +} >>>>>>>>> +.share-select { >>>>>>>>> + float:left; >>>>>>>>> +} >>>>>>>>> .update-btn { >>>>>>>>> - margin-top:20px; >>>>>>>>> - padding-top:10px; >>>>>>>>> + margin-right:40px; >>>>>>>>> +} >>>>>>>>> +.update-btn, .share-select { >>>>>>>>> + margin-top:10px; >>>>>>>>> } >>>>>>>>> #form-update label { >>>>>>>>> font-weight:bold; >>>>>>>>> @@ -216,7 +221,7 @@ textarea.inputBox2 { >>>>>>>>> float:left; >>>>>>>>> background-color:#FFFFFF !important; >>>>>>>>> border:1px solid #a7aaad; >>>>>>>>> - width:440px; >>>>>>>>> + width:95%; >>>>>>>>> height:50px; >>>>>>>>> padding:4px; >>>>>>>>> margin-right:10px;color:#000; >>>>>>>>> @@ -532,7 +537,7 @@ h5 { font-size: 100%; } >>>>>>>>> h6 { font-size: 80%; } >>>>>>>>> img, img a {border:0px; } >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -.clear {clear:both; height:20px; } >>>>>>>>> +.clear {clear:both;} >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> /* >>>>>>>>> .container-update, .container-tabs, .container-settings {behavior: >>>>>>>> url("src/iepngfix.htc");} >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Modified: >>>>>>>> >>>>>> incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/templates-hidden/message.html >>>>>>>>> URL: >>>>>>>> >>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/templates-hidden/message.html?rev=930136&r1=930135&r2=930136&view=diff >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> ============================================================================== >>>>>>>>> --- >>>>>>>> >>>>>> incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/templates-hidden/message.html >>>>>>>> (original) >>>>>>>>> +++ >>>>>>>> >>>>>> incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/templates-hidden/message.html >>>>>>>> Thu Apr 1 23:33:10 2010 >>>>>>>>> @@ -26,29 +26,30 @@ >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> <lift:loc>ui_messages_message_label_message_request</lift:loc> >>>>>>>>> </h3> >>>>>>>>> <div id="form-update"> >>>>>>>>> - <div id="messages"></div> >>>>>>>>> - >>>>>>>>> - <div class="post-form-row"> >>>>>>>>> - >>>>>>>> <label><lift:loc>ui_messages_share</lift:loc></label> >>>>>>>>> - <select id="vPool" >>>>>>>> class="inputBox2"> >>>>>>>>> - <option >>>>>> value="0"> >>>>>>>>> - >>>>>>>> <lift:loc>ui_messages_message_label_message_pool_public</lift:loc> >>>>>>>>> - </option> >>>>>>>>> - >>>>>>>> <lift:UserSnip.accessPools/> >>>>>>>>> - </select> >>>>>>>>> - </div> >>>>>>>>> - <div class="row clear" >>>>>>>> style="display: none" id="reply-to-div"> >>>>>>>>> - >>>>>>>> <b><lift:loc>ui_messages_message_label_message_reply</lift:loc></b> >>>>>>>>> - <span >>>>>>>> id="reply-to-span">-</span> >>>>>>>>> - <a href="javascript: >>>>>>>> clearReplyTo()"> >>>>>>>>> - >>>>>>>> <lift:loc>ui_messages_message_label_message_remove_reply</lift:loc> >>>>>>>>> - </a> >>>>>>>>> - </div> >>>>>>>>> + <div id="messages"></div> >>>>>>>>> <div class="post-form-row"> >>>>>>>>> <textarea >>>>>> class="inputBox2" >>>>>>>> id="vMsg" rows="5" cols="80%"></textarea> >>>>>>>>> <div class="row clear" >>>>>>>> style="display: none"> >>>>>>>>> <input id="vTag" >>>>>>>> style="width: 90%"/> >>>>>>>>> </div> >>>>>>>>> + </div> >>>>>>>>> + <div class="row clear" >>>>>>>> style="display: none" id="reply-to-div"> >>>>>>>>> + >>>>>>>> <b><lift:loc>ui_messages_message_label_message_reply</lift:loc></b> >>>>>>>>> + <span id="reply-to-span">-</span> >>>>>>>>> + <a href="javascript: clearReplyTo()"> >>>>>>>>> + >>>>>>>> <lift:loc>ui_messages_message_label_message_remove_reply</lift:loc> >>>>>>>>> + </a> >>>>>>>>> + </div> >>>>>>>>> + <div class="post-form-row"> >>>>>>>>> + <div >>>>>> class="share-select"> >>>>>>>>> + >>>>>>>> <label><lift:loc>ui_messages_share</lift:loc></label> >>>>>>>>> + <select >>>>>> id="vPool" >>>>>>>> class="inputBox2"> >>>>>>>>> + <option >>>>>>>> value="0"> >>>>>>>>> + >>>>>>>> <lift:loc>ui_messages_message_label_message_pool_public</lift:loc> >>>>>>>>> + >>>>>>>>> </option> >>>>>>>>> + >>>>>>>> <lift:UserSnip.accessPools/> >>>>>>>>> + </select> >>>>>>>>> + </div> >>>>>>>>> <div class="update-btn"> >>>>>>>>> <input >>>>>> type="image" >>>>>>>> onclick="javascript:post_msg();" src="images/btn-update.gif" /> >>>>>>>>> </div> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >
