Re: Style Guide meeting summary

Belated regrets

Best, Tim Boland NIST

At 01:34 PM 9/2/2008 -0400, you wrote:

>We slogged through some more grid issues today.
>
>Because of the variety of things that could be in grid cells, Edit seemed 
>overly specific, possibly applying only to text editing. Action and 
>Actionable seemed more generalized. Updated on wiki page.
>
>We talked about other ways to exit Actionable Mode. Most keys such as 
>Enter might be already mapped such as in the case of a rich text editor in 
>the cell. We didn't consider F2, in addition to Esc, to get out of 
>Actionable mode. Added to agenda for next time.
>
>We spent a good bit of time discussing the difficulty in implementing the 
>tab and shift-tab when in Actionable mode. There is no easy attribute to 
>scan for to locate which is the next actionable cell and bring it into 
>view. Also, for large grids rows may be progressively fetched so scanning 
>for additional actionable cells can be non-trivial. In the end, not having 
>this feature means keyboard only users would have to hunt for the editable 
>cells which would be burdensome, so we decided to keep this in the design 
>even though the implementation might currently be hard.
>
>We talked about how to see instructions of other non-Actionable 
>information in adjacent cells when the user is currently actioning content 
>in a cell. We decided that it is best that the user leave Actionable mode 
>and navigate to the adjacent content and then come back. The primary 
>concern was that many common key combinations used to inspect adjacent 
>cells without leaving the current cell would probably conflict with widget 
>behaviors in the current cell, or would be so convoluted as to inflict 
>high cognitive loads or be undiscoverable.
>
>We reviewed a snag in that the overriding of basic tab behavior means that 
>a user has no good way to navigate to links within grid cells. The 
>alternative, allowing the user to tab to links within the grid, could be 
>problematic in that a grid listing hundreds of URLs would mire the user in 
>a tabbing black hole. The lesser of the two evils was chosen. The user can 
>inspect a grid cell that has links in it but the tab key will move focus 
>off to the next widget when in Navigation mode. Is this sufficient?
>
>Lastly we touched on the lack of grid cell selection keys. We added that 
>as an issue for next week's call.
>
>I dropped the Control Z and Control Y keys as they are part of the overall 
>global widget recommendations for undo and redo respectively.
>
>All changes now updated on
>
>http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide
>
>Let me know if I missed anything.
>
>CB
>

Received on Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:39:22 UTC