[Fwd: Re: Re: Opencd-devel digest, Vol 1 #19 - 5 msgs]

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 18:36, Brendon Crawford wrote:
> 
> I would be willing to work on development for the HTML
> interface. How much do we want to actually add to this
> interface? Should it be rich with DHTML, and nice easy
> to use features? If so, will our browser even support
> that?
> 

I don't even know what DHTML is ...  Perhaps someone can enlighten me? 
Some people are looking at the K-meleon browser at the moment, so that
seems a likely candidate.  I guess you can get the info you need from
their web page and forum.  A CGI implentation might be nice, or just
plain HTML even with buttons like HOME, HELP (context sensitive help
would be nice), EXIT, etc. 
 
The main thing is that there shouldn't bee too much information on each
screen, but rather large friendly buttons and large fonts.  

Check this link for a nice set of icons:
http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/art/icons.html
(I'm thinking mostly about the larger ones)

Most of these are not relevant to us perhaps, but I like the way they've
done it, choosing a standard palette so that all the icons have a
similar feel.  Anyway, you can just make some temporary graphics for now
as place holders.  We should probably use symbol-only icons with text
below, that way we can easily change the language.

Can the browser detect the screen resolution?  If not I guess we should
optimize for 800x600.  


Here is my idea for a preliminary structure: (others will disagree)

1. Welcome, choose a language (flags?)
2. Choose usage type: Home, Education, Business, OSS Literature
3. Menu of available software (which will depend on #2, although there
will be overlap)
4. Choose: 
	a) product information -- screen shots, etc.
	b) Install help 
	c) perform install

In addition there will be features like HELP available everywhere.

I really think that we should avoid drop down menus with too much
choice.  Think more like the Wizards used in Windows where there's only
a few choices on each screen.

Ok, good luck!

- Henrik

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Henrik Nilsen Omma             Theoretical Physics, Oxford
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