On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:34 PM, David Richardson wrote: > I'm not objecting to the concept of live search, just the placement > ofthe results. I've looked at almost all the themes at rubygarden, > andmost of them either bork the live search feature, or just plain > lookbad. The Origami theme does it right, by overlaying on top of > the(fixed) sidebar content. > I still believe that <div id='results'> should live in the > maincontent area and overlay or hide it. This is where people have > grownto expect the results. I can't see the advantage of leaving > the normalcontent visible while doing any kind of search - it's > just adistraction and it's all too easy to miss the results in the > sidebarif the list is short or empty. > My objective here is to see if there is a consensus on this and if > so,to get a change into release 4. There are a couple of crufty > layoutissues that detract from the generally great impression that > Typomakes already. The other that comes to mind immediately is the > articlecomposition form. The preview area dances around and changes > size andthe options and controls which I want are always off screen. > I can, and will fix these things on my own, but they all require > minorre-arrangement of the way the page DOM is constructed. I'd > prefer tosee changes like these be accepted into the trunk rather > than remainpatches. And, I haven't been on the mailing list long > enough to knowwhat it takes to get changes accepted. > It would seem that a healthy consensus here is a good start, > though. - D.R.
I don't really care either way about the search box, but PLEASE give me a patch for the article preview box. It's horrific right now. Scott
