Thanks Walt, I am not deadset on hiding TiddlyWiki-ness from users. I just wanted to maximize space by hiding the sidebar, with the additional advantage that people using mobile would not see the sidebar first. I don't like that aspect of default mobile view.
That is helpful feedback, keep it coming! I have to administer a final exam today, but after that I will add simple instructions in the instructions tiddler: "This is one file, so don't use your browser's back button. Close tiddlers with the X at the top right of the tiddler." Maybe I will add a home button somewhere and add an instruction about that, too. On Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 5:23:29 AM UTC-5 ludwa6 wrote: > That is one remarkable work of curation you've done, David; Congrats! > and Thanks for sharing. > > One question i have, about the form of presentation: is it your intention > to make the User eXperience of this resource seem as much as possible like > a typical website, hiding the idiosyncrasies of TiddlyWiki? > > So it seemed to me at first, and though i saw the little icon in top RH > corner of screen to open the sidebar (and that only because i'm a bit > familiar w/ your UI design style :-), i tried to live w/in confines of the > horizontal navigation menu bar. But then when it disappeared after a mere > 2 clicks ( from "Sources" tab to one item in the list), and i was faced > with just a long list of sources and a simple filter widget, i did what i > think a typical user might do, and hit my browser back button... Which as > we all know does not deliver the expected result, here in TiddlyWikiWorld. > > Not to nitpick over UI details about a work that is as you say not yet > finished, i ask this more fundamental question about UX, because i think > it's an important question for all those of us in this community who aim to > deploy online works that should be usable for people who may not have prior > experience with TW. > > What i'd like to do for such TW-naive users is give a bit of guidance > right up front about what's different here (i.e. forget about your browser > navigation tools, and open the sidebar -or ToC, ideally- if you get lost), > but then i do know enough about Human-Computer Interaction realities to > know that this this is no easy thing to do effectively. > Am curious to know what y'all think. > > /walt > > > On Monday, May 31, 2021 at 11:43:29 PM UTC+1 David Gifford wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> This is a long term project I started probably a year ago, and have >> worked on little by little. Not yet finished, but far enough along to be >> useful. >> >> https://giffmex.org/gifts/dictionaryarticles1.html >> >> 31 dictionaries and encyclopedias, over 15,000 articles. No content, just >> the ability to search multiple dictionaries for articles, in various ways >> as needed. >> >> Perhaps some here might find it helpful to poke around and see how I did >> it, for inspiration for their own projects. Blessings! >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3ec6dcf4-7516-415a-89c9-5a411f34a94an%40googlegroups.com.
