[dokuwiki] Re: Anika's patch to style the edit bar

  • From: "Peter J. Vidler" <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:20:15 +0000

On 19 Feb 2006, at 16:42, Matthias Grimm wrote: 

1. Groups of connecting objects should not break up to multiple lines
   if not really necessary. All buttons should form one line and the
   summary field, its label and the minor change check box should form
   another one.

I use a sidebar and generally browse in a window (not fullscreen, being on a Mac). Consequently, the space available for me is much less than for most. I kind of agree with the above, but splitting buttons and such is not so important to me. What is important, is when a checkbox (the minor edits one) and its text label appear on separate lines (same with the summary label and box). That should definitely be avoided at all costs, IMHO.

2. Any object group should only use more space than necessary. Therefore
any width or height attributes are forbidden because either the area is
too small or the object group has big borders that can't used by other
objects. Due to different languages you can't predict how wide an
element really is. Any guess would be wrong automatically.

Why not just pick a minimum width of window that you're willing to support (don't forget the sidebar users!) and design (short) rows based on that? Also, don't forget that different platforms display the buttons differently... The two attached pics show the main DokuWiki site at several sizes (note the off-vertical-centre of some of the buttons in the title pic, and the label and summary box on separate lines in the edit pic).

Pete

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