Just like to say I love the interface. Its very slick. It would take some testing with "real" waves to see true userability, but its this sort of alternative presentation that I think WFP based things should be looking towards; not cloneing what was done as wave.google, but looking towards new methods of user/wave interaction.
On Nov 21, 1:23 am, Kai Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll do some optimizing for different screen resolutions-- I expect it gets > really squished in the iPad's vertical orientation. > > Large blips get cut down to one line, so as to view many blips at once. The > navigation view is a multi-tiered inbox, to easily scan for updated blips. > > To see whole blips and get to the Wave Editor, I'll add a "View" button. > But what does it do? It could: > > - Open Blips within the middle column. This is nice because you still > see a list of replies to the current blip on the right. > - Open Blips in a new Wave Editor view with the traditional threading > - This degrades the conceptual integrity of the Navigation view > somewhat > - Other suggestions welcome! > > I'll check out wala-compiler later this week. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Torben Weis <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2010/11/20 Kai Chang <[email protected]> > > > James, on GWT/GXP: I'm also unsure about this. I've been watching the > >> progress of Lightwave, in case Tensor turns out to be difficult to > >> implement > >> on the WIAB architecture. > > > Lightwave will definitely get a pure JavaScript web front-end. I have some > > working OT code in the wala-compiler project. It needs some fixes, but it > > works good enough for a nice demo :-) > > > Once I got all the federation stuff up and running, I would like to return > > to the client-side. Since I am a terrible web designer myself, using Tensor > > sounds like a good idea. > > > Greetings > > Torben > > >> Torben: Good point about ascending trees. I've added the ability to move > >> up and down trees freely. Let me know if the following action is easily > >> discoverable, and feels right: > > >>http://fleetinbeing.net/tensor/ > > >> On the iPad, one should be able to drag left and right along the whole > >> tree without selecting anything new. I believe this is the obvious > >> behavior > >> you mentioned. Free horizontal movement is desirable, but the CSS/JS isn't > >> quite that robust at this point. I'll think on how to implement this. > > >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Torben Weis <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>> I like it, too. > > >>> One question: As I descend deeper into the tree, how am I supposed to > >>> return to the root? > >>> I tried it on the iPad and there the answer seems obvious, although it is > >>> not implemented yet. > >>> But how to go back with the mouse? > > >>> Greetings > >>> Torben > > >>> 2010/11/20 James Purser <[email protected]> > > >>> Very nice, not sure how much work it would take to implement as GWT/GXP > >>>> though. > > >>>> James > > >>>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Kai Chang <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>>>> Here's the code, with the Apache V2 license: > > >>>>>https://github.com/syntagmatic/tensor > > >>>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Kai Chang <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>>>>> Introducing Tensor: a UI concept for Wave in a Box > > >>>>>>http://fleetinbeing.net/tensor-v1/ > > >>>>>> This iteration of Tensor focuses on problems related to: > > >>>>>> - Large organizations > >>>>>> - Many waves in many contexts > >>>>>> - Long waves and deeply nested blips > > >>>>>> My solution is an arbitrarily long chain of Miller columns. There's > >>>>>> plenty more to decide on to make this view truly usable. Conspicuously > >>>>>> absent is the Wave Editor, or any way to get to it. > > >>>>>> Tensor-v1 is all static HTML/CSS/JS. I just copied+pasted the Waves > >>>>>> to create the Blips columns. If someone has suggestions for > >>>>>> populating the > >>>>>> prototype with dynamic content, that would help with usability testing. > > >>>>>> The top and bottom bars are fairly unresolved. A persistent metadata > >>>>>> display would be useful for many users. For instance, my mom works in > >>>>>> Information Services for US New and World Report. She needs a way to > >>>>>> create > >>>>>> and manage a controlled taxonomy to ensure content is findable. > > >>>>> -- > >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>>> Groups "Wave Protocol" group. > >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>>> [email protected]<wave-protocol%2bunsubscr...@goog > >>>>> legroups.com> > >>>>> . > >>>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>>http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > >>>> -- > >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>> Groups "Wave Protocol" group. > >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>> [email protected]<wave-protocol%2bunsubscr...@goog > >>>> legroups.com> > >>>> . > >>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > >>> -- > >>> --------------------------- > >>> Prof. Torben Weis > >>> Universitaet Duisburg-Essen > >>> [email protected] > > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>> "Wave Protocol" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> [email protected]<wave-protocol%2bunsubscr...@goog > >>> legroups.com> > >>> . > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Wave Protocol" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<wave-protocol%2bunsubscr...@goog > >> legroups.com> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > > -- > > --------------------------- > > Prof. Torben Weis > > Universitaet Duisburg-Essen > > [email protected] > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Wave Protocol" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<wave-protocol%2bunsubscr...@goog > > legroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. 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