| Time |
S |
Nick |
Message |
| 12:27 |
|
kados |
morning owen |
| 17:49 |
|
kados |
owen: back? :-) |
| 17:57 |
|
owen |
Yeah, I'm still here. In and out. |
| 17:57 |
|
kados |
http://www.yui-ext.com/deploy/yui-ext/docs/ |
| 17:58 |
|
kados |
that's a great example of well designed UI, plus it's docs on YUI at the same time :-) |
| 17:58 |
|
kados |
I love that you can hide the sidebar |
| 17:58 |
|
kados |
I bet the librarians would go nuts for that |
| 18:00 |
|
kados |
check out the slick TabPanel example |
| 18:00 |
|
kados |
combines various types of tabs into one |
| 18:02 |
|
kados |
ohhh, the Layouts one is nice too |
| 18:03 |
|
owen |
Yeah, there's a lot of neat stuff there. |
| 18:03 |
|
kados |
talk about web 2.0 |
| 18:03 |
|
kados |
we'd own with some of these features :-) |
| 18:06 |
|
kados |
and the back button works, that's what amazes me |
| 18:06 |
|
kados |
like the feed viewer 2 |
| 18:06 |
|
kados |
as well |
| 18:10 |
|
kados |
looking at the source, it's interesting, because there's nothing particularly sematically correct about it :-) |
| 18:12 |
|
owen |
That doesn't sound good. |
| 18:17 |
|
kados |
owen: what do you think about the idea of having a folder->file view for the sidebar in the intranet? |
| 18:26 |
|
owen |
I'm not opposed to the idea of having javascript-driven expanding menus, but I'm not personally a fan of the folder file metaphor for navigation |
| 18:31 |
|
owen |
I think you have to be careful with navigation like that not to reduce the 'target zone' for clicks. |
| 18:32 |
|
kados |
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/ |
| 18:32 |
|
kados |
maybe we should start with some layout ideas |
| 18:33 |
|
kados |
we could probably pick three or four layout designs to cover the whole intrnaet |
| 18:33 |
|
kados |
I'm guessing |
| 18:38 |
|
owen |
Last time I checked out the YUI CSS layouts they were fixed-width only. Looks like there's a little more flexibility now |
| 18:38 |
|
kados |
yea |
| 18:38 |
|
kados |
though I have to say, I'm warming up to fixed width designs :-) |
| 18:39 |
|
owen |
I'd love to see examples of where you think a fixed design is working better than a fluid one. |
| 18:40 |
|
owen |
Koha is a special beast since it's not strictly a "reading" kind of site, so there is that. |
| 18:40 |
|
kados |
yea |
| 18:40 |
|
kados |
the parts that I usually find work well fixed are things like sidebars |
| 18:40 |
|
owen |
Sites with fixed designs wich lots of text content often bother me because I can re-size the text and still get a comfortable layout |
| 18:40 |
|
owen |
can -> can't |
| 18:40 |
|
kados |
yea |
| 18:41 |
|
kados |
here's an example |
| 18:41 |
|
kados |
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/ |
| 18:41 |
|
kados |
compare the resizing behavior when you make your browser narrow |
| 18:41 |
|
kados |
with what NPL's intranet does |
| 18:42 |
|
owen |
Are you thinking of the minimum width setting on the central content area? |
| 18:43 |
|
kados |
yea, and the fact that unless you increase the text size the left-hand bar is always the same size |
| 18:44 |
|
owen |
Yeah, that's what we've got with the OPAC now--a fixed left column. |
| 18:44 |
|
kados |
basically this I guess: |
| 18:44 |
|
kados |
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui[…]example_doc3.html |
| 18:46 |
|
kados |
so this actually is starting to make sense |
| 18:49 |
|
owen |
:) How so? |
| 18:50 |
|
kados |
well the layouts are amazingly simple to create |
| 18:50 |
|
kados |
it's basically just a bunch of divs with some classes |
| 18:50 |
|
kados |
and a few js libraries |
| 18:54 |
|
owen |
Time for me to head out. Talk to me again about this stuff next week if you get time |
| 18:54 |
|
kados |
will do |
| 18:54 |
|
kados |
have a good weekend |
| 18:54 |
|
owen |
You too |
