[Building Sakai] NeoPortal Adjustments?

[Nate Angell]

One might also want to consider the accessibility of a dynamic
scrolling solution. Maybe simpler would be better for a variety of
reasons.

- Nate


On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:08 AM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jul 29, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Bryan Holladay wrote:
>
> I'm not a UI person or play one on TV but how's this sound:
> Have a hard coded max size for the dropdown, then have it do some jquery
> magic auto scroll when the mouse gets close to the bottom of the list to see
> the rest of the list.
> Is that possible, sound good?  Maybe have a down arrow at the bottom
> suggesting more tools.
> -Bryan
>
> I am even less qualified as an expert - but one thing we tried to avoid in
> Neo was training users in complex gestures to get simple things done.
> Adding lots of "this dynamic thing happens when the mouse enters this area
> and its velocity is less than so many pixels per second dynamically expand
> blah blah blah" was something we wanted to avoid.   We wanted users to move
> their mouses and click on things and move again and click again.  Dynamic is
> fine when the user is explicit in their request for the action.
> As an example in Google+ ig you have more than six circles to get t the 7th
> and later circle when you want to add someone the gesture needs to be
> *really precise* - precice gestures and guessing user intent through
> gestures is fun for a designer to imagine byu leads to use pain IMHO.
> I also hate the fact that Twitter notices you are near the bottom of the
> current tweets, gets more and then repositions the page so I can never find
> where I was reading!  Dynamic stuff is hard even for sophisticated users.
>  Especially when gesture detection is a little difffere t on browsers.
> /Chuck
>
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