> Lähettäjä: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com>
> Aihe: Re: Ruby Visual Identity Team
>
> gabriele renzi wrote:
> > James Britt ha scritto:
> >
> >
> >
> >> Each box shows resources culled from links posted to del.icio.us.
> >> Clicking the resource name just loads that page. Clicking the little
> >> 'i' next to a resource shows you what people have posted it and their
> >> extended comments. A modern browser is required. Haven't tested in
> >> older browsers (or even many current ones), so field reports are
> >> welcome so that it degrades nicely
> >
> >
> > (my two cents)
> > the [i] button is interesting, but It is not that obvious to me what it
> > does, I wonder if there is a way of making it more clear :/
>
> Good question. The intent was to provide a way to render some metadata
> about each link; link title themselves are not always properly
> descriptive, yet people should not have to go click a link and load
> another page just to see that it isn't what they thought.
>
> The tricky part is providing enough information to a new user as to what
> that little icon is for without that same information just getting in
> the way once a user is no longer new. Maybe mouse-over pop-up help.
> Something, anyway.
Anecdotally, a white 'i' on a blue background is generally recognized
as an 'information' section, though it has to be large enough to be
clear, generally I'd say 12-14px should be adequate. To give it a
longer label, you'd use title:
<a title="Information about this item">...
> > Also, the boxes have too many elements, imo. Once you provided a nice
> > search/faceted browsing interface, you should not need all those
> > articles in the home.
>
> Hm. Partly I wanted to have a set of boxes that showed either the 10
> top-rated (e.g. most mentioned on delicious, or whatever the criteria
> is) or the 10 newest. Maybe 5 or 7 is better. Browsing by tag/topic is
> done from the 'browse' page; each box would have a browse link as well
> that took you to that browse page, preloading the search criteria for
> tags that map to that category.
>
> But the matter of clutter is certainly something to watch for; part of
> me thinks that simple links to predefined facet browsing might be
> better. (With sufficient JavaScript the boxes could be collapsible as
> well, I suppose, by default showing only topic titles linking to a full
> browsing page.)
>
> >
> > Btw, I'd globally prefer listing some latest link (like in current
> > ruby-doc) and provide browsing links based on the (meta)tags
>
> That's an option, but that could also be obtained via an RSS feed. I
> might be wrong, but I think fewer and fewer people are getting news and
> site updates by actually going to the site in question.
>
> James
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