[TYPO3-core] RFC #12282: Inconsistent look of browse_links

[Dan Osipov]

I would keep the layout the same, but prevent auto submit on clicking 
the page in the page tree, instead going with the submit button.

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Steffen Müller wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On 06.11.2009 17:47 Steffen Gebert wrote:
>> Problem:
>> The browse_links dialog is inconsistent compared to the browse_links.php
>> of the core.
>> Furthermore, the popups are way too small.
>>
>> Solution:
>> Move the options to the right and change the size of the popup to
>> 950x600px.
>>
> 
> -1 because of bad usability, already discussed in the project-4-3 list. [1]
> 
> Your proposed solution forces users to think from right-to-left ( <-- ),
> but they are used to left-to-right ( --> ).
> I argue that users of the western world follow a left-to-right
> convention, because they read from left to right. That means they first
> click on pagetree before entering link options. Result: window is closed
> immediately after choosing page without options entered.
> 
> Alternative solution:
> Top-down like the one in RTE is better. Change browse_link in core
> according to RTE.
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.typo3.org/pipermail/typo3-project-4-3/2009-November/002302.html
> 
> Popup resizing is a good idea.
>