At 3/7/2007 01:23 PM, John Faulds wrote:
Can I ask what people view as the best option for presenting additional
information on a form you're filling out? Ideally it would be visible on
the page itself, but sometimes that's not possible and making the user
click a link to another page and then back again can be an inconvenience
if some of the info they've entered is removed (passwords etc.)
Perhaps the most common rationale for pop-ups is to add new temporary
content to an already-full page. To solve the problem without using
pop-ups, one can link to blocks of content at the bottom of the
current page, with reciprocal links to bring the user back to their
starting sections (or they can simply click Back). This can be a
good fundamental model for a non-visual interface, with visual
enhancements added progressively. When javascript is running, morph
the link to display the temporary content either in a sidebar or in
an absolutely-positioned block that acts like a pop-up but is really
just part of the current page, such as the larger image display in browsercam.
Paul
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Paul Novitski
Juniper Webcraft Ltd.
http://juniperwebcraft.com
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