[TYPO3-hci] My 4.1 proposal - again

[Dan Frost]

First, f course this wouldn't work for all templates. Site admins only
use it when it does work.

Second, we have found that the usability is *much* better if you remove
icons and other such clutter. Again - look at google pages. How easy is
that?!

I personally don't like drag and drop too much in the browser because I
think that, at the moment, the metaphor of clicking - but not dragging -
in a browser is too firmly entrenched in web users. If you disagree then
I think the article that Kasper referenced the other day is worth reading!

Anyway - we have a toolbar built, so if anyone's is interested it will
be published as soon as I can sort this TER/SOAP bug on my install.

dan


> But how? What is the reasonable way
> 
> Well frontend editing has today several modes
> 1) click icon and you get BE view to edit record
> 2) click icon and you get pop-up window
> 3) click icon and and you get into page editing form
> 
> The last *doesn't* fit for all layouts. It brokes layout commonly really
> badly and is in most cases totally useless.
> 1 or 2 can be easily configured for the taste of the user.
> I don't see any advance clicking the content or edit icon in edit panel,
> which has also other tasks.
> Endeed if you don't use edit panel but wrap the content element,
> the advance is that the content editing in frontend is more like
> preview.
> That is not difficult to implement - needs an extra wrapper element
> and for that onclick (basically the same as in 'edit' link).
> Hide/delete can be done in edit mode - but somebody would like
> to make them from edit panels.
> Maybe this could work as an alternative.
> If the extra wrapper would be 'li' you could combine
> AJAX drag'ndrop + content editing without edit panels.
> 
> 
> You can test relative good working toolbar in
> http://lapua.xetnet.com/typo3/
> 
> dev_admin
> 
> that uses a little bit modified pixe_feediting toolbar
> supports both the standard page module and TemplaVoila
> - support for the latter is not full in the version, which can be
> downloaded from TER,


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Dan Frost
Technical Director
3rd Eye Vision - 3ev.com