- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:56:57 -0400
- To: "Evans, Donald" <Donald.Evans@corp.aol.com>
- CC: "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Don, At last Tue DTHML style guide call, you asked if I could supply some information about Fluid. Here is a summary of the project, and some links apropos the current drag-and-drop discussions. Fluid is an open source collaborative effort to improve the usability and accessibility of web applications. The primary clients are academic software such as Sakai (http://sakaiproject.org) and uPortal (http://www.uportal.org). User interface "pain points" within these environments are identified and reworked in order to make the UI more intuitive. An important aspect of Fluid is that it begins with investigating the user experience, and implements a solution based on the results of that inquiry. The main web site is: http://www.fluidproject.org/ The Reorderer is a set of JavaScript objects that allow users to rearrange content on a page. Rearrangement is accomplished either by mouse-based or keyboard-based drag-and-drop. Working demos are found in Fluid's wiki: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Using+the+Reorderer A brief description of the Reorderer is given here: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Reorderer The Fluid daily build site has examples of using the Reorderer in more real-world situations: http://build.fluidproject.org/ Preparing this email has inspired me to compare the Reorderer's keyboard based drag-and-drop with the DHTML style guide. I 'll email that comparison to wai-xtech on Mon. Have a good weekend. -- ;;;;joseph 'This is not war -- this is pest control!' - "Doomsday", Dalek Leader -
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