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A View Suggestion

 [1/2] from: dness::home::com at: 26-Sep-2001 15:13


It is tough to describe this picture in words, but let me try: (1) I open www.rebol.com (2) I click on Rebol.Com (3) I click on Sites (4) I click on some particular site (5) I do whatever seems appropriate on that site. Now, here comes the suggestion: When I click on `World Wide Web Sites' to go back up one level, it would be nice to have some visual indication, as the `sites' screen is being restored, of where I _was_, as---for example---I may be `scanning' thru the sites looking for something new, and it is easy to lose track when some time has passed between going down into a site and coming back up from it. Notice that this is only asking for a `visual effect', not for any change in actual behavior. Something like `telescoping' down and back up might do the trick, but since control of REBOL screen design is obviously in hands _much_ more competent than mine, I hesitate to be too specific. Anyone else think this might be useful?

 [2/2] from: jasonic:panix at: 26-Sep-2001 17:18


> Now, here comes the suggestion: > When I click on `World Wide Web Sites' to go back up one level, > it would be nice to have some visual indication, as the `sites' screen > is being restored, of where I _was_, as---for example---I may be
`scanning'
> thru the sites looking for something new, and it is easy to lose track > when some time has passed between going down into a site and coming back > up from it. > > Notice that this is only asking for a `visual effect', not for any change
in
> actual behavior. Something like `telescoping' down and back up might do
the
> trick, but since control of REBOL screen design is obviously in hands
_much_
> more competent than mine, I hesitate to be too specific. > > Anyone else think this might be useful?
Yes I agree. It's a basic issue of interface design. Provide people with 3 bits of universal feedback info: a> where they came from b> where they are now c> where they will go next ... *before* they click.... - Jason