[pLog-svn] About the admin page width

Mark Wu markplace at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 11:23:29 GMT 2006


Hi Oscar:

Do you know how much difference between Safari and Konquerer. If their dom
model are pretty the same, then I will use Konquerer to test.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plog-svn-bounces at devel.lifetype.net 
> [mailto:plog-svn-bounces at devel.lifetype.net] On Behalf Of 
> Oscar Renalias
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:54 AM
> To: plog-svn at devel.lifetype.net
> Subject: Re: [pLog-svn] About the admin page width
> 
> Hmmm... even though I can swear I cleaned the cache and 
> reloaded the page like 3 or 4 times when I reported this, 
> everything seems to be ok now. I just activated 
> devel.lifetype.net again and now it looks ok both in Firefox 
> and Safari so please disregard my previous comment.
> 
> Regarding some of these changes, a few comments:
> 
> - we have to check why the list of categories is not being 
> reloaded after adding one. The category is added, it is 
> available via manage-  >categories but does not appear in the list.
> 
> - The "add" button should be deactivated while the category 
> is being added. Users clicking the button more than once 
> (slow connection,
> whatever) might end up adding the same category too many 
> times. It should be reactivated once the server has confirmed 
> that it has been added.
> 
> - Can we move the "hide | show" links to the right side of the form?  
> They activate/deactivate the right column, so I believe they 
> should be on the right side instead of left.
> 
> - What happens to these features if javascript support for 
> ajax or whatever is needed is not available?
> 
> Oscar
> 
> On 11 Jan 2006, at 21:09, Oscar Renalias wrote:
> 
> > This doesn't look good on either Safari 2.0.3 or Firefox 
> 1.5 under OS 
> > X 10.4.4. I have attached an screenshot from each one of them, but 
> > basically everything is being shifted to the bottom of the page 
> > (presumably because either the left or right column is too wide)
> >
> > Oscar
> > <firefox_shot.jpg>
> > <safari_shot.jpg>
> >
> > On 11 Jan 2006, at 12:53, Mark Wu wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, I am already commit the changes I propose in SVN rev 2767.  
> >> Including
> >> Option Show/Hide and Dynamic Drop-Down Menu.
> >>
> >> Please kindly give it a try. I already test them under FF/IE/OPERA.
> >>
> >> One oproblem, seems opera can not recogonize CSS well, it always 
> >> misundersting our CSS setting. :( So, the layout is ugly 
> and buggy .. 
> >> Can I ignore opera?  I think FF and IE already dominate the most 
> >> browser market.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mark Wu [mailto:markplace at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:43 PM
> >> To: 'Mark Wu'; 'plog-svn at devel.lifetype.net'
> >> Subject: RE: [pLog-svn] About the admin page width
> >>
> >> Oops... I forgot attached the screen shots ...
> >>
> >> Regards, Mark
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mark Wu [mailto:markplace at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:41 PM
> >> To: 'Mark Wu'; 'plog-svn at devel.lifetype.net'
> >> Subject: RE: [pLog-svn] About the admin page width
> >>
> >> Hi All:
> >>
> >> About the 1st item, I already implemented in my notebook. 
> The effect 
> >> looks greats. I also test it in Firefox 1.0/1.5, opera, 
> and IE 6, all 
> >> of them works great. BTW, I use RICO Ajax effect library. This 
> >> library is base on Prototype.
> >>
> >> With this feature, I think we don't need to change the screen to
> >> 1024 any
> >> more... :p
> >>
> >> I am also thinking implement this hide/show skill in 
> "custom section" 
> >> in newpost/editpot. It can hide the custom field unit we 
> need to use 
> >> it ... It will save a lot of screen space...
> >>
> >> I will also try to use cookie to remember these settings ...
> >>
> >> But, If we get more effects on the pages, that means we 
> need to spend 
> >> more "cpu time" on client, and bandwidth in server... It 
> is a trade 
> >> off..
> >>
> >> Anyway, I will commit the code to 1.1 trunk after I clear 
> some html 
> >> and javscript garbages...
> >>
> >> Then, you can decide to keep this feature or not ..
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mark Wu [mailto:markplace at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:15 PM
> >> To: 'plog-svn at devel.lifetype.net'
> >> Subject: RE: [pLog-svn] About the admin page width
> >>
> >> HI Oscar:
> >>
> >> 1. I think most pages are okay, the only one problem is 
> newpost and 
> >> editpost page.  I am thinking to add a button to let user 
> to hide or 
> >> show the options in the right sides.  So, it can make the WYSIWYG 
> >> looks larger ...
> >> 2. Do you remember I add a pull-down menu before? I plan 
> to add it to 
> >> 1.1 with user options. The user can enable/disable it through 
> >> blogsettings. The default will be current menu-style 3. 
> And, I also 
> >> plan to review all CSS settings, to make them looks the same in 
> >> IE/FF, even in English and Other languages... It can avoid 
> very small 
> >> font in other language.
> >>
> >> ** I already compare our UI with Wodpress' UI, I don't think our 
> >> options too complex or too much. It just because the width is too 
> >> narrow to include them... :P
> >>
> >> How do you think?
> >>
> >> Hi  Reto:
> >>
> >> I like 1024 then 800 actually. It can make the 
> newpost/editpost more 
> >> larger (I believe it is the most used page in blogging 
> system) .... 
> >> :p But, change the width will be a big pain .... There are so many 
> >> settings are hard-code in template, for example, articlelist, 
> >> categorylist pages ...
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: plog-svn-bounces at devel.lifetype.net
> >> [mailto:plog-svn-bounces at devel.lifetype.net] On Behalf Of Oscar  
> >> Renalias
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:10 AM
> >> To: plog-svn at devel.lifetype.net
> >> Subject: Re: [pLog-svn] About the admin page width
> >>
> >> I'm not really up for some redesign of the admin 
> interface. It was  
> >> quite a
> >> lot of work to implement the way it is now...
> >>
> >> But if 800 pixels is not really enough for our pages, could it be  
> >> that
> >> they're already too complex? Can we do some work to make 
> them even  
> >> easier
> >> before adding more fields?
> >>
> >> Oscar
> >>
> >> On 10 Jan 2006, at 18:13, Mark Wu wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi All:
> >>>
> >>> Our current admin page width is 800, but it is a little 
> bit small  
> >>> when
> >>> everyone's screen gettting bigger and bigger. Do you 
> think en- large
> >>> it to 1024 or "fit the border" is a good idea? Or you like to  
> >>> keep in
> >>> current width?
> >>>
> >>> Mark
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