[IMC-NYC-Editorial] Re: mir party schedule

[patrick]

Hey,

> - implement garbage bin for hidden articles

Is this a new way of handling hidden articles?

> - implement city dropdown list

Not sure if this means to copy sf.indymedia.org's style, but if so, I'm 
not a fan of that.  I propose doing it as in index.02, where instead of a 
dropdown, 4 random links to imc's per continent are listed, with a 
'more...' links to a page listing out all the imc network links.  This is 
not a big deal for me to code, as the javascript drawing the city links 
from the xml cities list has been done by sf.

The dropdown style javascript isn't accessible by all browsers, at least 
in a way that presents well, as far as I know.  Also, it pushes down the 
nav links below it.

Also, I agree with this critique of dynamic menus, that argues that users 
decide first and click second, negating usefulness of dropdown menus:

http://www.uie.com/articles/users_decide_first/

Dropdowns like a list of u.s. states when filling out a form makes sense, 
I think, because a user is expecting states, because they're familiar 
with the 50 states, there is usually prompt text, and registration forms 
and such tend to follow a standard display (e.g., name, address, city, 
etc.).

But I don't think dropdowns for navigation work really well.  There's 
another good article on this, but can't find it at the moment.


--Patrick



On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 mtopper at riseup.net wrote:

> Here is the list that we made of stuff that still needs to get done:
>
>
> - finish conversion script (get media imported, fix script so it does 
not
> import hidden content and write code to map old dada/active ids to mir
> ids)
> - finish templates
> - implement garbage bin for hidden articles
> - find mirror sites for static content
> - implement city dropdown list
>
>
> meeting on 4/4/05 7pm (I guess this needs to be changed.  I can meet
> anytime next week after 7pm)
>
>
> -Mike