Inline Edit: Single line/multi-line?

[Anastasia Cheetham]

On 14-Jul-08, at 2:33 PM, Daphne Ogle wrote:

> Are we in need for a conversation about this?  It seems like this is  
> quite a complicated conversation to have asynchronously.

A conversation is probably a good idea, we should definitely do that.  
At the same time, an email thread acts as a record of a conversation,  
which my aging brain appreciates ;-)

> As far as defaults, can we specify based on the field type?

Just thinking aloud here...

I imagine that we could have a single configurable components that  
comes with several different API methods depending on the use. The  
idea would be that the name of the function call would make it pretty  
obvious what the purpose is, so for example:

     fluid.createSingleLineEdit();
     fluid.createMultiLineEdit();
     fluid.createAutoWrappingEdit();

or some such thing. Technically, the internals of the components would  
configure different defaults based on the implied context for each of  
these cases (which would, of course, be clearly documented), and in  
any case, the defaults could be overridden.

> This conversation makes me wonder about display while editing versus  
> display once edited.  Does the component control both?

That's a very good question. We'd probably benefit from some  
wireframes illustrating what the ideal interaction would look like in  
the various contexts.


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Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
Software Designer, Fluid Project    http://fluidproject.org
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto