Brion is right, the point is to make the "meter" communicate the scarceness of a quantity without using numeric values which expose the underlying technical differences between characters and bytes.
- Trevor On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the point of segments instead of a byte counter is that people > won't be thinking "hey why is it subtracting 2 or 3 instead of 1 every time > I type?" I think the relative speed of segment moving will not be a big > deal. > > -- brion > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Erick Guan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> A line will be great. >> >> 255 segments in one line? For people using other language or typing >> English and other language combined, will it still be strange to see the >> segments fade faster than expected? >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Trevor Parscal >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I think using a geometric, rather than numeric, indicator is a good >>> idea, but until it starts moving in response to typing, it will be unclear >>> what it means. And because that movement in response to typing is so >>> important to the user understanding the meaning of the indicator, it should >>> probably just be a line with 255 segments and respond to every keystroke. >>> >>> - Trevor >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Erick Guan <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Edit summary can't be longer than 255 bytes. Bug >>>> 4715<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4715> which >>>> wants to support longer summary won't be patched in a short period, or >>>> won't fix. Bug 40035<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40035> >>>> shows >>>> the counter by exposing how much bytes left directly to the user. But it >>>> will still confuse the user in other languages. >>>> >>>> I think a indicator which contains four gray lines will help. With the >>>> content of edit summary increasing, the indicator decrease the number of >>>> lines. When edit summary takes up more than 255 bytes, the indicator >>>> increases red lines for warning and the save button is disabled instead of >>>> wrap content of the edit summary. >>>> >>>> In this way, the indicator works consistently with any characters at >>>> least. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Erick Guan/管啸 (fantasticfears) >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikitext-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitext-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Erick Guan/管啸 (fantasticfears) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitext-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitext-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l > >
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