[aur-dev] [Less]/[More] buttons
Hi, I noticed that after the page number navigation I sent in was included, the [Less]/[More] buttons were removed from the template. I think I meant my change to supplement the way people can navigate, not replace. When you are looking for something specific, then the page numbers can be useful. On the other hand when someone is just browsing through a lot of results (e.g. checking all the orphan packages which one to adopt), then the [less]/[more] buttons are useful, since they always stay at the same position. Thus while navigating, one does not have to move the mouse, just PgDown...PgDown...Click (repeat). Since it we already have to code to make it work, I propose to put them back on the site. What do you think? The removal as based on purely aesthetic choice, or was there anything else behind it? Cheers, Greg
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:10:48PM +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that after the page number navigation I sent in was included, the [Less]/[More] buttons were removed from the template. I think I meant my change to supplement the way people can navigate, not replace. When you are looking for something specific, then the page numbers can be useful. On the other hand when someone is just browsing through a lot of results (e.g. checking all the orphan packages which one to adopt), then the [less]/[more] buttons are useful, since they always stay at the same position. Thus while navigating, one does not have to move the mouse, just PgDown...PgDown...Click (repeat). Since it we already have to code to make it work, I propose to put them back on the site. What do you think? The removal as based on purely aesthetic choice, or was there anything else behind it?
I removed them because I figured that they were redundant, with the page links already there. Yeah I guess you could call it aesthetics. Well it's good to get feedback on these things. I guess it can't hurt to put them back, but maybe in a better position.
Hi, 2009/1/23 Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com>:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:10:48PM +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that after the page number navigation I sent in was included, the [Less]/[More] buttons were removed from the template. I think I meant my change to supplement the way people can navigate, not replace. When you are looking for something specific, then the page numbers can be useful. On the other hand when someone is just browsing through a lot of results (e.g. checking all the orphan packages which one to adopt), then the [less]/[more] buttons are useful, since they always stay at the same position. Thus while navigating, one does not have to move the mouse, just PgDown...PgDown...Click (repeat). Since it we already have to code to make it work, I propose to put them back on the site. What do you think? The removal as based on purely aesthetic choice, or was there anything else behind it?
I removed them because I figured that they were redundant, with the page links already there. Yeah I guess you could call it aesthetics.
Well it's good to get feedback on these things. I guess it can't hurt to put them back, but maybe in a better position.
So far most of the page navigation I've seen was with such buttons as: [First][Prev][...pages...][Next][Last] I'd say [First] and [Last] are probably redundant for this page (well, if it displays all the possible page numbers), something equivalent to [Prev]/[Next] that is fixed to a position is a natural way of navigation. And if we have them, no explanation is needed about the meaning of the numbers. Otherwise I'd say a "Pages: [1] [2] 3 [4] ..." or something equivalent might be useful. Just because we are not all the same. Still, I'd cast my vote for [Less (or Prev or...)] [all possible pagenumbers] [More (or Next or ...)]. Fortunately the code is already there, so whatever is the decision, it can be done pretty easily. Cheers, Greg
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:47:25PM +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote:
So far most of the page navigation I've seen was with such buttons as: [First][Prev][...pages...][Next][Last] I'd say [First] and [Last] are probably redundant for this page (well, if it displays all the possible page numbers), something equivalent to [Prev]/[Next] that is fixed to a position is a natural way of navigation. And if we have them, no explanation is needed about the meaning of the numbers. Otherwise I'd say a "Pages: [1] [2] 3 [4] ..." or something equivalent might be useful. Just because we are not all the same.
Still, I'd cast my vote for [Less (or Prev or...)] [all possible pagenumbers] [More (or Next or ...)].
Having all the possible page numbers would be a bit much when you have over 13,000 packages and over 500 pages.
2009/1/23 Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com>:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:47:25PM +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote:
So far most of the page navigation I've seen was with such buttons as: [First][Prev][...pages...][Next][Last] I'd say [First] and [Last] are probably redundant for this page (well, if it displays all the possible page numbers), something equivalent to [Prev]/[Next] that is fixed to a position is a natural way of navigation. And if we have them, no explanation is needed about the meaning of the numbers. Otherwise I'd say a "Pages: [1] [2] 3 [4] ..." or something equivalent might be useful. Just because we are not all the same.
Still, I'd cast my vote for [Less (or Prev or...)] [all possible pagenumbers] [More (or Next or ...)].
Having all the possible page numbers would be a bit much when you have over 13,000 packages and over 500 pages.
Fair enough. :) This is another case of thinking just inside the box - the development environment I have here just have 1200 or so packages and forgot to check the real deal.... In light of this I'd say it would be nice some sign (for example "...", or "<" and ">") before/after the numbers if there are smaller/larger numbers then displayed. Cheers, Greg
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