OK, site redesign is moving along, albeit a little more slowly this week as we attend to less style and more plumbing.
Design-wise, Douglas turned my attention to one big remaining mess we've never really dealt with -- return links. Specifically, getting you back to an object's "index" page whenever you're doing some specialized action on it. If it is a whole-page form, the submit or cancel buttons should take you back. If it is a modal dialog, you just dismiss it. But if it is a page with no form or embedded forms, there should be a link (not a button) in a standard place and syntax. Actually, the only real question is what should the text be. "Done?" We've used "OK" in the past but I'm kinda over that. Thoughts? In a related point, Douglas and I discussed whether or not, for example, the full Person sidebar should appear on all person views or just the main one. In particular, Douglas raised the point that right now the Javascript for modals is per-view so it would mean a lot of repeated code or new plumbing to, say, make the preferences modal come up in every person page. I'm sure this could be fixed but it prompted me to more seriously consider whether the full person sidebar ought to be showing up in all person views (e.g., edit groups). We really don't want people navigating away from specific forms using the sidebar, in particular when doing so would skip the form submission, and it is a distraction when they should just be focusing on the form in front of them. So I'm leaning toward tying the sidebar to specific views much more closely. For example, making the current person sidebar only visible in the person index (singular, aelkner) view. Thoughts? --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
