A line will be great.
255 segments in one line? For people using other language or typing English
and other language combined, will it still be strange to see the segments
fade faster than expected?
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
I think using a geometric, rather than numeric,
indicator is a good idea,
but until it starts moving in response to typing, it will be unclear what
it means. And because that movement in response to typing is so important
to the user understanding the meaning of the indicator, it should probably
just be a line with 255 segments and respond to every keystroke.
- Trevor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Erick Guan <fantasticfears(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi,
Edit summary can't be longer than 255 bytes. Bug
4715<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4715> which
wants to support longer summary won't be patched in a short period, or
won't fix. Bug
40035<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40035>
shows
the counter by exposing how much bytes left directly to the user. But it
will still confuse the user in other languages.
I think a indicator which contains four gray lines will help. With the
content of edit summary increasing, the indicator decrease the number of
lines. When edit summary takes up more than 255 bytes, the indicator
increases red lines for warning and the save button is disabled instead of
wrap content of the edit summary.
In this way, the indicator works consistently with any characters at
least.
--
Regards,
Erick Guan/管啸 (fantasticfears)
_______________________________________________
Wikitext-l mailing list
Wikitext-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
_______________________________________________
Wikitext-l mailing list
Wikitext-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l