Right, this is an important issue to bring up as others have said. I have long been annoyed by the preview link but didn't have a better solution in mind that did not enter the realm of ham-fistedness.
At the very least we should have the text be more recognizable as a link, and I think Arthus's suggestion of a brief highlight of color upon being added to the page is a good first step in making it much more useable. On May 22, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Arthus Erea wrote: > This definitely is an issue and thanks for bringing it up. > > I'm still against including anything for unsaved posts, since I > don't think we should have text just saying something you can't do. > > However, the preview link should probably be highlighted better. > Primarily: > 1) It should look like a link (possibly underlined?) > 2) When it becomes available, it should be highlighted briefly with > color. > > On May 22, 2009, at 2:27 AM, David wrote: > >> >> Arthus Erea <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm not sure how we would have the "preview" button appear before >>> saving. As it is, there has to be some data in the post to preview >>> or >>> the theme has nothing to look at. >> >> As it is, there doesn't have to be any data (as the user defines >> data). One can already start a new post, without typing anything, >> hit >> save and preview, and see a preview of an "empty" post. Works just >> fine. > > Right, but from a technical standpoint we'd have nothing to link to. > Since there's no post and no ID in the database, we can't create a > preview link. > > ~Arthus > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
