I should probably put in perspective how much I and where I imagine us using jquery dialogs in or redesign.
This is not "javascript good, page reloads bad" everywhere. And in particular, the examples which tend to leap to mind first "add person" "add course" etc. are probably NOT where we'll end up using modal (and other) dialogs, or at least they aren't the lowest hanging fruit. Particularly when there are lots of fields. Or when you want to confirm creating or editing an important object by allowing the user to see the object view immediately. What I'm thinking of is more is awkward points in the interface. Like when you want to do what seems like a simple little change in SchoolTool that actually leads you to a form which is contained by a completely different object (which the user doesn't care about) and perhaps displays completely irrelevant action buttons, and getting back to where you came from isn't obvious or relies on some hack. In theory I'd have a specific example here, but hopefully you know the kind of thing I'm talking about. Another example is fill-down, which Alan and I were discussing last night. Instead of always having a blank row at the top of the gradebook, "Fill down" should be a choice in the column menu, which brings up a simple js dialog to enter the number you want to fill down. We'll have to make some decisions about how much we want to use js dialogs for confirmations. I'm not sure how much is too much there. Just my thinking at the moment... --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
