[TYPO3-hci] 4.1 = menubar/iconbar/dashboard; lets go!

[Kasper Skårhøj]

Hi Folks,

The week before the TYPO3 conference I spend 5 days playing around  
with prototype library and scriptaculous and implemented the first  
draft for the menu/icon bar we have kind of agree to do. In addition  
I'm trying to see if I can get my head around the framework for a  
dashboard.

At the TYPO3 conference I demonstrated this work in my keynote. You  
can watch that as a podcast next monday.

But for you, I have made a screencast demonstrating it in more  
detail. It can be downloaded here as QuickTime:

http://194.117.233.66/t3dl/typo3_src-4.0.1-kasper101006.tgz

The source code with all this in is available as a TGZ here; it is  
not yet in subversion but will be soon when I figure out some  
problems I have.

http://194.117.233.66/t3dl/HCIscreencast.mov

Deadline should be end of october for the first beta (then usability  
testing!)

These browsers are tested and it works except for the technical  
problems listed below:
- Windows: MSIE, Opera, Firefox
- Linux: Firefox, (Konqueror - but BIG exception!)
- Mac: Firefox, Safari, Opera.

Technical problems:
- event.stopPropagation() doesn't work in IE
- hover on divs doesn't work in IE
- konqueror doesn't show layers over IFRAMES.
- scroll bar in mozilla on mac penetrates layer.

Generally it feels a bit slow, don't know why. What you your feelings  
when you test it?

Todo:
- Configuration framework for menu/icon bar: It must be possible for  
users to remove applications in the iconbar or menu bar that they  
just don't need/like.
- Configurable "pull down menu" app with additional items (URLs,  
wizards, re-organization of it all) + function menu second level


I need the HCI team to supply the following answers/work:
- CSS / JavaScript improvements to my current code
- Design work to match t3_skin!
- A discussion around how this framework can be used to deliver out- 
of-the-box usability improvements to end-users
- Programming of more default applications for the menu/icon bar and  
dashboard; or at least create a catalogue of ideas for such.


Usability testing:
- The aim is to run usability tests on the result and make  
adjustments before we release it!




- kasper

"Necessity is the mother of invention"
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