[Imc-uk-useability] Re: [imc-uk-tech] publish page - regional and simplifications

[Chris]

Hi

On Thu 26-Jan-2006 at 02:09:09AM +0000, kriptick at beeb.net wrote:
> 
> This is great and well overdue as the old pub page sucks. My 
> only gripe is that you've carried over the far too short 
> media file name boxes. These need to be MUCH wider than the 
> paltry 18 chars at present as if you browse in a lengthy path 
> and file name - quite common under \My Documents in windoze, 
> the name of the file is lost far off the right hand side of 
> the present far too short box. This is very important and is 
> almost certainly the reason why quite a few posters manage to 
> duplicate some pictures in one post as they simply can't see 
> the name of the files they've already filled in.
>  ------------------
> |c:\my documents\my| pictures\GM action\picture1.jpg
>  ------------------ ^> from here on is out of box & invisible!

I agree but last time I looked at this it wasn't possible
to make this element wider... but we should have another
try... perhaps it can be done with CSS...

In addition I think that having a seperate fieldset for
each upload woudl make sense, eg:

 +- Media Item 1 ---------------------------------+
 |        +-------------------------------------+ |
 | Title  |                                     | |
 |        +-------------------------------------+ |
 |        +--------------------------+ +--------+ |
 | File   |                          | | Browse | |
 |        +--------------------------+ +--------+ |
 +------------------------------------------------+

> Also I really think it's only fair to warn the punters that 
> if they include their email address with @ sign then they're 
> likely to be relentlessly hit with spam.

Well... we should say that links starting with http:// and
email addresses will be turned into hyperlinks -- lots of
people enter addresses in the form www.example.org.

Regarding spam, I dunno if it's worth mentioning... I
guess for people who have never put their email addresse
on a public site then perhaps it is...

Chris

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