Hi Rebecca, >For example, if you wanted to show that a field was editable content (within >the whole application), but not on the particular screen you are on right now >(especially if the user knew that by clicking on "edit" or some other option >they would be able to edit those particular fields.)
As you mention it would be preferable to indicate this functionality by showing an Edit button next to the (currently uneditable) text. Showing that an option exists but is not currently available is often a technique used in application menus. For example it's important to know that the Copy command can be found in the Edit menu, even when the Copy command is not an available action. The user is able to learn the interface more readily when this approach is taken. However I can't think of a similar situation on a website (if you don't have any bananas then I'm going somewhere else ;). Unless the website is more of a web application. Any examples come to mind? å -- Andy Kirkwood | Creative Director Motive | web.design.integrity http://www.motive.co.nz ph: (04) 3 800 800 fx: (04) 970 9693 mob: 021 369 693 93 Rintoul St, Newtown PO Box 7150, Wellington South, New Zealand ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
