Hi Brian The idea is that notifications are for transient, ahem, notifications that do not require user interaction. Alerts are intended to behave as modal road blocks, requiring the user to deal with them before they disappear. That sounds the other way around from what you were expecting.
Best wishes Jeremy On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Brian Shaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > Sure it makes sense to utilize different areas of the screen real-estate. > Being still new to TiddlyWiki, I wasn't aware of notifications yet. I liked > how as the alerts cascaded down the screen the story list was unobstructed, > especially if my browser window was a little larger than in the screenshot > I'd attached. > > Just tried out the notification feature. It didn't look like notifications > cascade down the screen, but render layered on top of one another. > > If you envision using the alerts for more routine events, say less urgent > then sync failures, would it be feasible to shift the notification area to > the top left and alerts to the top right? > > Thanks, > Brian.. > > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Brian >> >> Good idea. Maybe the alerts should be left justified, since we still have >> the notifications at the top right? >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Brian Shaver <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi Jeremy, >>> Thanks for the response. Yeah, this direction covers my use case well. >>> >>> From a look and feel perspective, I might suggest the .tw-alerts region >>> is unpinned from the left side of the viewport, and possibly with a fixed >>> width specified ... the attached image is width 450px. Gives it kind of a >>> growl style notification feel. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Brian.. >>> >>> >>> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YPZ2m_PSnCs/Uv9rcOEoxqI/AAAAAAAAAHg/37UF9C7n5pU/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-02-15+at+8.15.26+AM.png> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, February 14, 2014 9:55:51 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> - If I'm a user and I see this, I'd want to know, what I should do >>>>> now. ... >>>>> >>>>> - I'd also like some information, what it really means. Even for me, >>>>> it is not clear, if I'm in trouble now, or not. ... it's a yellow box, so >>>>> not really dangerous. So I'd probably close it, and may have problems >>>>> later >>>>> on. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, error alerts need to be spruced up so that they are clearer for >>>> users; we can add links to them too, so the user can search easily for >>>> information about the problem. >>>> >>>> Best wishes >>>> >>>> Jeremy >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> -mario >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jeremy Ruston >>>> mailto:[email protected] >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] >> > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
