On 6/26/07, Mark Clements <gmane(a)kennel17.co.uk> wrote:
To me, it would be better if they went alongside
the section head, and
ideally there would be some sort of javascripting to highlight the area
they
apply to, to make it doubly clear.
I have posted a crude UI mock-up [1] of how I would envisage the edit
links
working. The icon (an 'e' in a circle) is just a crude example - in
practice we would want something a lot nicer and non-language-specific.
The
blue highlighting in the mock-up indicates how we could highlight the
section to be edited when the mouse moves over the link.
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Image:EditLinks_Suggestion.png
The highlighting is another excellent idea. I would, however, be
strongly inclined to stay away from icons, as we've done to date, when
there are simple and more easily-understandable textual labels that
would work just as well.
Actually I prefer the icons, because they provide a consistency which you
simply cannot get with text. Whilst "edit" is blessedly succinct in English,
I'll bet that in other languages the equivalent is much more verbose: this
could be used in the alt-text just like at present.
Would it be possible to actually produce a "MySkin" which worked like this?
If not, what more would be necessary to make this possible?
HTH HAND
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Phil
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