pcplantdb

[Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>]

What if users could choose, and there was a spectrum (don't show me editable
words <--> show me all editable words) - like a volume dial?  So they can
choose the view specific to their intentions.

Oy ve, that sounds complicated.  Or, better yet (and probably easier) what if
you can't tell a word is editable until your mouse rolls over it (and then the
word grows in size, or something).  So text looks normal, legible, and only
gets "link acne" on a mouse rollover - so it only has one pimple at a time.  

I see this as similar to the icon bar at the bottom of OSX+, where the icon
you're on is big and raised, but the ones adjacent to it are also anticipating
their turn...

Does this help?
*s

------ Original Message ------
Received: 02:15 PM PDT, 08/01/2005
From: Bear Kaufmann <bear@ursine-design.com>
To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] question on 0.3.0

Yeah, I know what you mean.
Maybe it would be appropriate to has an edit this entry link. Much of 
this extra code could be hidden away, until someone wants to actually 
edit it.
Perhaps edits are shown as a chronological history instead, with a 
different view?
Thinking along the lines of how a wiki handles it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Permaculture&action=history
Not the only solution, but a possible one.

Cheers,
Bear

On Monday, August 1, 2005, at 01:12  PM, Chad Knepp wrote:

> Ok, I'm running into the situation where every other word in the plant
> report is editable... how do I indicate this in a non-cumbersome way.
> Even minimalist links/graphics give the page link acne.  I'm having a
> similar problem with attributing authorship.  Since editable things
> are edited by authors it sort of makes sense to say who wrote what,
> but when every third word has this property it gets overwhelming.
>
> Any ideas?
> Chad
>
> -- 
> Chad Knepp
> python -c 'import base64;print 
> base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'
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