On May 20, "Michael C. Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/5/21 David <[email protected]>:
>
> > FWIW, a WYSIWYG editor is less important to me than the ability to
> > easily preview the post and return to editing. (If I had to choose.)
>
> What would be your ideal for a preview ? I'm assuming you're saying
> that the current preview isn't satisfactory for you ? Would you like a
> preview on the publish page itself ? Something else ?
Blame it on ignorance and the discoverability of the Habari entry-
writing workflow.
I had thought that the workflow was this:
1. Make changes and click the button "Save"
2. Quickly, before the transient log notice in the TL corner
disappears,
click the link in the log notice "... has been saved as draft."
If you missed it, you're SOL.
3. After previewing, hope that the browser's back button will bring
you back to the publish page with a populated form.
But when I saw that you wrote "the current preview" that made me
re-examine the publish page. Is there a workflow already in place?
Did I miss it?
It's only after careful examination and moving the mouse over all the
elements on the page that I noticed some static text that
stealthfully
appeared in the TR corner exactly when the TL corner drew my
attention
away. Like a pick-pocket team.
It was nicely executed sleight-of-hand that a magician would be proud
of.
I had no idea that "Preview Post" had appeared. I figured that it's
certainly
not a button or a link, because it doesn't conform to any of the style
cues
of the other clickable elements on the page.
Except that it is a link. If you ever discover it, and move your
mouse over it, then
you can discover that it's not static text, but a useful link that had
its
text-decoration set to none (as is consistent with the admin space),
but also
wasn't bold nor a button (and that's not so consistent).
Aha! OK. I can live with this workflow, now that I've found it.
I'd never seen Preview separated from Save and Publish quite like
that. It's separated
by distance on the page, visual style, and time of creation, even
though conceptually
it's somewhat related.
This is not a complaint. Merely an anecdotal story revealing why I
didn't discover
the preview mechanism. Something that might have helped me:
Transitioning from inactive (gray) to active instead of from invisible
to active. (I had
already scanned the publish page for links and controls before hitting
"save". I didn't
know I'd have to scan the page again for a newly created control after
hitting "save.")
--David
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
