[Sigia-l] Link to Search Field Labels

[Alfonso Corretti]

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 10:16, Listera wrote:
> You could, of course, really simplify things and have three columns, like
> so:
> 
> Label 1     |________________________|     Comments 1
> Label 2     |________________________|     Comments 2
> Label 3     |________________________|     Comments 3
> 
> and visually separate the rows/columns by color, font weight/size, etc.,
> vertically and/or horizontally.

IMHO, this could be a simplification of the implementation, but not a
real simplification for the user, since he could feel visually overflown
in the "first sight" state (the worst beginning for any experience).

In the Plone way, the user is informed of the nature and behaviour of
every form field only when he needs that information. Not before, not
after (in the verification step), and in a clear and fancy way.

Plus, this method can be reused with the more complex web
applications/form interactions, giving the user a "standard" way to
understand anything he could find blurry when doing any task.

Not to mention that users are already used to see tooltips when they
point to a link or image.

And, in addition, the implementation of this trick is fair simple. Just
take a look at the source code and you'll find it's based in the CSS
visibility property, and a couple of javascript events to set/unset that
property.

Cheers,

-- 
Alfonso Corretti <alfonso.corretti at hispalinux.es>
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