[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Sakai 10: options link renders differently in different browsers

[Adam Marshall]

Ah – ha. All browsers render as pencil and paper icon on QA server. We’re running a slightly older version of Sakai 10. Soz about that.

However, I still think it is a really bad design decision. The user will not know that some tools are portlets and some not, why should they? Why should they care?

All that they will know for certain is that “the ‘Options’ link for Web Content, Home and IMS LTI tools has vanished”.

We either have to change all ‘Options’ and other ‘admin buttons to icons and move them to the RHS of the tool, or we touch none of them.  It’s no good adopting a random approach.

Adam



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From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com]
Sent: 16 July 2014 14:12
To: Adam Marshall
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org Developers; sakai-user at sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai 10: options link renders differently in different browsers

Hi Adam,

The tools that have the pencil icon are actually JSR-168 portlets and clicking that invokes the edit mode of the portlet. They should not be different between browsers though, they should render identically. Do you see the same on the nightly builds with your two browsers?
cheers,
Steve

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk<mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:

The ‘Options’ link displays differently in different browsers. In IE 8 (& others) you see an ‘Options’ button, in Chrome and others you see a ’pencil and paper’ icon. See screenshot



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MSEI 8 vs Chrome



This makes it very difficult to write guidance material or indeed help people over the phone.



Was this intentional?



My vote (should I be lucky enough to get one) would be to stick with ‘options’ button: 90% of other ‘admin’ options for tools are buttons so why suddenly change one of the buttons in a couple of tools to an icon which is located in a completely different place to where it used to be?



It’s a bad design decision if you ask me.



Adam



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IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.







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