Re: supported browsers

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:22:13 +0100, Tonico Strasser  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I meant that (mainly not technical versed) users are probably stressed  
> with UI widgets they are not familiar with. Dropdowns works always  
> different, sometimes onmouseover or onclick and so on. There are lot of  
> arguments for and against dropdowns, I don't want to go further on this.  
> But everybody would be familar with a <select> widget, I think? This is  
> just an example and neither a criticism nor a suggestion.

All modern UIs use the same paradigm. Random window managers/widget kits  
for Linux excluded.

> I think it's a lot of work to create a Plone Human Interface Guide where  
> you standardise widgets and their behaviour. You would need a huge well  
> organised object oriented ECMAScript API. And I'm not sure if its worth  
> the energy, because of the lack of browser support. Maybe we are talking  
> about two different things ;)

It's not as hard as you think. Concentrated UI widgets (like the pulldown  
menu) are really quite simple if you restric them to a minimum of  
features. Our goal is not to create the Big Javascript to Rule Them All,  
but rather small widgets that do their job properly.

We already have an informal API/UI policy, but this should be better  
documented of course. It's getting better every day. :)

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