Re: ids now included in Formulator fields

On 30 Nov 2009, at 14:27, Andy Altepeter wrote:

> On Monday 30 November 2009 03:47:36 am Wim Boucquaert wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Kit BLAKE wrote:
>>> It's a nice looking form, but rather complicated, requiring  
>>> javascript
>>> for Mozilla based browsers. Also the solution is from 2006. Maybe
>>> there's a better way out there?
>>
>> You don't need the javascript anymore, since Firefox 3 all browsers
>> support inline-block (http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html)
>>
>> We should estimate of it's worth the effort although to make forms
>> accessible.
>
> My thought is twofold:
>
> 1) Silva cares about accessibility
> 2) I think it's fair to say that going forward, once SilvaViews is  
> dropped for
> all components, the vast majority of forms will be rendered in one  
> place:
> silva.core.views.  Change it there, and it'll be fixed almost  
> everywhere.
>
> Unfortunately we do need to change it in more than one place, (e.g.  
> the
> SilvaView views.)  Changing the visual appearance is not a difficult  
> thing to
> do -- it's already been done for 2.1/2.2 (placing the description  
> below the
> title).
>
> Thought also needs to go into how external sources are expressed --  
> that's a
> usability nightmare.  But I expect the usage of these to be changing  
> soon
> (more on that in a bit).
>
> Does anyone know of a more current usable forms approach?

We need a layout that includes a description per field. Probably we  
could add that without too much grief.

The intention was to make the description take up less space by  
appearing in a hover message, or on focus, or something similar. Which  
would still be accessible since the text is among the field elements.

Kit


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