From: gabriele renzi Date: 2005-02-18T18:54:47+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Visual Identity Team James Britt ha scritto: > gabriele renzi wrote: > >> James Britt ha scritto: >> >> >> >>> Each box shows resources culled from links posted to del.icio.us. >>> Clicking the resource name just loads that page. Clicking the little >>> 'i' next to a resource shows you what people have posted it and their >>> extended comments. A modern browser is required. Haven't tested in >>> older browsers (or even many current ones), so field reports are >>> welcome so that it degrades nicely >> >> >> >> (my two cents) >> the [i] button is interesting, but It is not that obvious to me what >> it does, I wonder if there is a way of making it more clear :/ > > > Good question. The intent was to provide a way to render some metadata > about each link; link title themselves are not always properly > descriptive, yet people should not have to go click a link and load > another page just to see that it isn't what they thought. > > The tricky part is providing enough information to a new user as to what > that little icon is for without that same information just getting in > the way once a user is no longer new. Maybe mouse-over pop-up help. > Something, anyway. I'd just add a tiny box on the right with "link info" on top and initially filled with "click on the [i] for more info on each link". IMO this is - self explanatory on usage - does not steal space, since it uses the same of the actual approach,but.. - ..it is clear that you can get more informations, since you know there is an info box - it is not something that will slow successive visits Actually, I think mouse-overing is better than icon clicking, but since you're using xmlhttprequest it would probably be too much overhead. > But the matter of clutter is certainly something to watch for; part of > me thinks that simple links to predefined facet browsing might be > better. (With sufficient JavaScript the boxes could be collapsible as > well, I suppose, by default showing only topic titles linking to a full > browsing page.) this would be wonderful and would bump up the coolness-factor :)