Steve Bennett wrote:
On 5/21/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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.
Would it be possible to (perhaps as an option) allow a tiny icon at
the end of each section which lets you edit it?
I have never found it hard to edit at the beginning of the section,
the PageUp key works just fine.
The problem I've had is the edit box sometimes cannot be found, as it is
in some incongruous place after having been moved by floating images. As
the section header can be very short (the edit link away on the right is
easy to miss), or very long with multiple lines (the edit link can appear
disassociated with the section heading).
An icon with alt text might be nice, but it should be placed at the *left*
of the section header, where it is quite firmly attached.
However, I'd rather the section header itself be a link that edits the
section. No muss no fuss.
Unfortunately, that would conflict with some folks that stick a page or
category reference in the section header text, despite guidelines that
recommend against the practice.
All in all, the current practice is not perfect, but it's hard to come up
with something universally better....
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.
Personally I've never found the double-click option at all intuitive
or useful. I've only ever invoked it by accident. If there was a way
of adding an entry to the right click menu, that would be better.
What right-click menu? I'm a Mac user....
No, double click is *execute* not edit.