Re: New browser controls and an API for using them

Hi Laurian,

It sounds fair and I think most people share your thoughts. Adding new buttons
could mislead most users and create even more damage. The KISS principles are
always better.

Overall this was an interesting discussion on how people see their browser. I
really wonder what the working group will come up with :)

- Sylvain

Selon Laurian Gridinoc <laurian@gmail.com>:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Some raw thoughts about `back' and `undo' controls. From the user
> perspective.
>
> The users know `back' and `forward' are used to navigate on the
> history stack, a history of URIs (most of them bookmarkable).
>
> `undo' is related to editing.
>
> But we learned on the web to use `back' as `undo', because interaction
> was spread among multiple pages.
>
> Now, to have both `back' and `undo' will be confusing; how to restore
> the previous state, before a document.save(), `back' or `undo'?
>
> The users know to get back from an error or unwanted state (was page
> in the old web), I think they will hit `back' if someone messes up the
> DOM tree in front of his eyes.
> And `undo' will be felt as undoing what I entered in this edit box,
> and not undoing a complex interaction.
>
> Cheers,
> Laurian Gridinoc, www.grapefruit.ro
>
>
> On 12/8/05, Sylvain Hellegouarch <sh@defuze.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I've tried to give some of my views in a blog entry yesterday. If anyone is
> > interested :)
> >
> > http://www.defuze.org/oss/blog/entry/2005/12/07/the-chicken-and-egg-problem
> >
> > Bye,
> > - Sylvain
> >
> > Selon kenny heaton <kennyheaton@gmail.com>:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This idea came up in another discussion
> > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2005Nov/0045.html
> > > and I thought I would start it's own thread.
> > >
> > > For use with web applications, should there be new controls added to
> > > web browsers tool bars, and a scripting API that allows web developers
> > > to tie into them?
> > >
> > > The advantages of this would be that common buttons and controls that
> > > are normally expected in application, such as undo/cut/copy/paste,
> > > could exist in web application as well. A developer could define these
> > > in the application itself (as apposed to in the browser), but giving
> > > them a home in the browser means they will be consistent and will be
> > > where the user expects them to be. They can also have there own
> > > browser defined key board short cuts adding to usability and
> > > accessibility.
> > >
> > > If this is a good idea it raises a lot of other questions: Should
> > > there be a pre-defined set of controls, or should trusted web
> > > developers be able to define there own? How should security be
> > > handled? Should this be done with a API as a part of the window
> > > object? Possibly an event model where there are onundo, oncut, onpaste
> > > events the developer can catch? Or should this be part of the
> > > "Specification of a declarative format for applications and user
> > > interfaces" that the Web Application Formats Working Group is
> > > chartered with?
> > >
> > > Any thoughts or ideas on this?
> > >
> > > Kenny
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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