Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Handling document references in UIs?
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 13:29, Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 03/31/2010 11:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi,
We need a consistent way to handle document references in UIs.
For example, on the rename template, the title is "Renaming<string serialization of a reference here>". Thus if the page is named "?." in the space "Main" for example we get: "Renaming Main.?\." Same for the wysiwyg editor's insert link dialog box (under the title we have the technical reference printed).
Proposal =======
Since references are technical I don't think we should print them in the UI.
Instead we should print its constituents: wiki, space, page (or just space, page when not in multiwiki or when handling a ref not from the current wiki).
This is what Caty has done in the Search UI BTW. Thus I propose to reuse her idea and print this:
wiki>> space>> page
where>> is the HTMLÅ symbol.
You can check visually what I mean here: http://playground.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch?text=test&x=0&y=...
Thus applying this to the example above, we would have:
"Renaming Main>> ?."
And thus this removes the technical aspects: * no ":" or "." to separate wiki and space *no character escaping
WDYT? Any other idea to achieve the same result ?
+1.
Maybe / would be good as a separator. It's respecting the directory/file separator, it's also used in the URLs. it's familiar.
"/" would be ok too but provided it's displayed in a different color and appropriate spacing between reference parts and "/". I have the feeling Å provides less ambiguity since it cannot appear easily in a document name while "/" is common.
I think i would also prefer an arrow or any other shape more UI oriented than "/".
Thanks -Vincent
Another idea: have a rectangle box drawn with 3 internal boxes, each for a reference part (wiki, space, page).
I don't like this. Boxes are visual only, and borders aren't really good at being suggestive.
-- Sergiu Dumitriu
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-- Thomas Mortagne
Another arrow like symbol is ჻ (4347) . For more arrow entities you can check: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/arrows.html Thanks, Caty On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 14:42, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com>wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 13:29, Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 03/31/2010 11:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi,
We need a consistent way to handle document references in UIs.
For example, on the rename template, the title is "Renaming<string
serialization of a reference here>".
Thus if the page is named "?." in the space "Main" for example we get: "Renaming Main.?\." Same for the wysiwyg editor's insert link dialog box (under the title we have the technical reference printed).
Proposal =======
Since references are technical I don't think we should print them in the UI.
Instead we should print its constituents: wiki, space, page (or just space, page when not in multiwiki or when handling a ref not from the current wiki).
This is what Caty has done in the Search UI BTW. Thus I propose to reuse her idea and print this:
wiki>> space>> page
where>> is the HTMLÅ symbol.
You can check visually what I mean here:
http://playground.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch?text=test&x=0&y=...
Thus applying this to the example above, we would have:
"Renaming Main>> ?."
And thus this removes the technical aspects: * no ":" or "." to separate wiki and space *no character escaping
WDYT? Any other idea to achieve the same result ?
+1.
Maybe / would be good as a separator. It's respecting the directory/file separator, it's also used in the URLs. it's familiar.
"/" would be ok too but provided it's displayed in a different color and appropriate spacing between reference parts and "/". I have the feeling Å provides less ambiguity since it cannot appear easily in a document name while "/" is common.
I think i would also prefer an arrow or any other shape more UI oriented than "/".
Thanks -Vincent
Another idea: have a rectangle box drawn with 3 internal boxes, each for a reference
part (wiki, space, page).
I don't like this. Boxes are visual only, and borders aren't really good at being suggestive.
-- Sergiu Dumitriu
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