From: Jay Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] editsection styling
Therefore, for this category of separator, I think pipes would be less
jarring to readers -- at least English readers.
From: Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
Jay's previous answer is correct I think. When choosing between pipes and
commas, the former are better for clear separation between equal elements.
However, the honest truth is that using punctuation to call out and
separate interactive elements like this is a pretty retrograde UI pattern.
Images or symbols plus words are together more easily memorable than words
alone. If you are in a situation where you let users interact with a LaTeX
document using a variety of methods, the ideal design might be one where
you give each type (log, pdf, dvi) a small, simple, and easily
distinguishable icon. Adding things like appropriate styles on hover, to
denote when a user is about to select an element, also might be helpful.
Ultimately I think we want to be shooting for a world where we can just use
whitespace, icons, and other less busy-looking methods to denote section
edit links,[1] rather than using punctuation.
Steven
1.
https://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acai_Designs#Section_Edit_Links
Thanks both - this is very useful. Steven - do you have any screenshots
showing how you would prefer to represent multiple actions such as
"Edit" and "Edit Source"?
LW