I've just been setting up an intranet MediaWiki, and it's already very popular and making me popular in turn. Thanks, MediaWiki developers!
A co-worker just made a suggestion which strikes me as a good idea for MediaWiki in general:
You know how the edit pages have "cancel" as a clickable link? It should really be a button. Web forms generally have "cancel" buttons rather than links. (He didn't notice "cancel" was there at first and was wondering if he needed to hit the "back" button.)
Thoughts? Objections to this? Worth filing in Bugzilla as a feature request?
- d.
It would follow the others (save/preview/show)
DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:37 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Feature suggestion for UI: make the "cancel" link onan edit page a button
I've just been setting up an intranet MediaWiki, and it's already very popular and making me popular in turn. Thanks, MediaWiki developers!
A co-worker just made a suggestion which strikes me as a good idea for MediaWiki in general:
You know how the edit pages have "cancel" as a clickable link? It should really be a button. Web forms generally have "cancel" buttons rather than links. (He didn't notice "cancel" was there at first and was wondering if he needed to hit the "back" button.)
Thoughts? Objections to this? Worth filing in Bugzilla as a feature request?
- d.
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On 08/11/2007, Dave Sigafoos davesigafoos@sanmar.com wrote:
It would follow the others (save/preview/show)
Yep, precisely. The co-worker in question has in fact used Wikipedia a lot as a reader, but not as an editor. He's a Unix sysadmin, so can use a computer and lives on the web with the rest of us :-) But I'd never noticed the interface inconsistency before.
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
On 08/11/2007, Dave Sigafoos wrote:
It would follow the others (save/preview/show)
Yep, precisely. The co-worker in question has in fact used Wikipedia a lot as a reader, but not as an editor. He's a Unix sysadmin, so can use a computer and lives on the web with the rest of us :-) But I'd never noticed the interface inconsistency before.
- d.
I don't think i have ever used that link :O I simply use the article tab or back option in the browser.
On 13/11/2007, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 08/11/2007, Dave Sigafoos wrote:
It would follow the others (save/preview/show)
Yep, precisely. The co-worker in question has in fact used Wikipedia a lot as a reader, but not as an editor. He's a Unix sysadmin, so can use a computer and lives on the web with the rest of us :-) But I'd never noticed the interface inconsistency before.
I don't think i have ever used that link :O I simply use the article tab or back option in the browser.
I think it's time I wrote and tested some code and put it in a feature request ... so far no-one's actually said this is a bad idea.
- d.
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