Hi Caty, On 02/09/2011 12:21 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote:
Hi,
Since XE 3.0M2 we have a new administration look ( http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise...).
There was a debate if the forms should be full width or not.
*Variants*: 1) *Partial Width* (current): http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Polls/AdministrationFormsful... 2) *Full Width*: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Polls/AdministrationFormsful...
What's the benefit of enforcing the same width? I think I prefer the width to depend on the size of the information displayed (for select boxes) or expected to be entered (text input). For instance if I have a text input for entering a small number I wouldn't like it to span the entire page width. Same for a select box with options of small length (e.g. Yes/No). Thanks, Marius
*Test*: You can test this "partial"/"full" width on your resolution by removing "half" class from "<form class='xform half"" definition.
*Considerations*: - When voting please consider that the width will be set for small and high resolutions (that until we will improve our skin to detect the resolutions change). - You should consider how form controls look (readability, usability) on different sizes, like<select>, input, textarea, etc.
*Other Solutions*: A. The problem is that on large resolution is hard to read the controls because the form are too wide - on small resolution there is unused space. A solution would be to use CSS media queries and adjust the width for smaller resolutions. B. Another solution would be to use the additional space given by the partial width and provide some extra help for the sections, see smaller resolution: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Polls/AdministrationFormsful... higher resolution: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Polls/AdministrationFormsful...
*Vote*: You can use the poll made for this vote: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Polls/AdministrationFormsfullwid... or if you don't have an account on incubator, just reply to this mail. Please cast you votes.
Thanks, Caty _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs