(from foundation-l)
On 5/21/06, Austin Hair <adhair(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Section editing is certainly counterintuitive for most, especially for
> sections more than a paragraph or two long—I invariably edit a section
> after I've read it, meaning I have to scroll/page back up for the
> link, and I remember it taking a while for me to get used to this.
> What's more, the link actually comes before the section heading, so
> only a graphical, CSS-enabled browser will display it in anything
> approaching a reasonable way.
When I coded section editing, I tried different ways to present the
link; it was very hard to find something which works even with complex
table layouts. I would actually prefer a small icon to the "[edit]"
text (it could still have "[edit]" as an ALT attribute), but that has
the problem of not working well with different heading sizes.
Regarding the scroll-up problem, one way to deal with it at least for
advanced users would be to offer double-click editing on the section
level. You could then click anywhere within a section to edit it.
Erik