- Use tables, as shown here:
I tried that design at the test site once, but couldn't get the "folding" mechanism to work with tables. Really strange.
It should work; K5 uses tables extensively and also has a dynamic mode. We'll have to look into this.
- Use icons for some stuff (User talk, block IP, diff, history, perhaps
the minor/new identifiers which are confusing to newbies)
I also tried "[-]" for diff and "[H]" for history at athe test site, but was immediately asked to replace them with "diff" and "hist" again. Also, icons could only be an option (text browsers etcl!)
"Text icons" don't really work. [-] and [H] are even worse than "cur" and "hist". Finding the right icons is hard - I don't really like the icons used by MoinMoin, for example (the only obvious ones are the magnifying glass and the printer). But a comic-style balloon for User talk would certainly work. For diff I'm thinking of something like this:
_________ _________ | \ | \ | | | | | | | | | A /---\ B | | ---/ | | | | | |__________| |__________|
- Use two lines per change if necessary to get decent link titles
Which would really work much better in a table. My Phase II table design wasn't widely appreciated, though ;-)
If you give me screenshots I can tell you why ;-)
Regards,
Erik