Hi,
I know there have been discussions on collapsed panel headers
I've had user complaints about the 'complexity' of our website (based on
XWiki).
After analysis of the complaints one of the reasons for perceived complexity were the
panels
They distracted the focus from the content, because each panel (we use approx 4 on the
left and 2 or 3 on the right) (
www.cdlsworld.org)) contains links/information.
Sending screen shots of the site with collapsed panels was rated significantly
'easier'. The panel header is descriptive enough.
What is today's recommended strategy to have the panels collapsed by default (i would
really like this to be a attribute when you define a panel; like a checkbox; default
collapsed!)
We do not require user configuration here; the state of the panel does not have to be
remembered per user session. We would rather have 'rules by context' If user has
certain rights, if user is in certain space'
But this is a nice to have, not a must have; we would be fine if one single panel is
always collapsed when entering a page. And for another panel that it is always open and
can be collapsed!
Any recommendation would be highly appreciated...
My own thoughts are that this might be something for javascript; the script could collapse
the panel...
Downside of javascript is that 'older' computers or users that have javascript
disabled might not benefit, that would suggest a serverside setting of the CSS class ?
Gerritjan