Pager design wording

[Colin Clark]

Hi Harriet,

On 28-May-08, at 11:59 AM, Harriet Truscott wrote:
> We have gone with the Fluid pager design for our MySakai widgets.

Glad to hear our early pager designs were useful to you. We've  
actually got three different potential designs, all located on this  
page:

http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Smart+Page+Navigation+(aka+Pager)

Which one of them have you implemented?

>> Is the logic of the "previous" and "next" buttons on the
>> 'recent activity' pane the wrong way around?
>>
>> Given that this list should show most recent first, the "next"
>> willl be earlier in time - which is also "previous"! It might
>> be better to say "earlier" and "later" to name those buttons
>> less ambiguously
>
> I like 'earlier' - I think perhaps that 'more recent' might be  
> better than
> 'later', alhtough

Good questions. This is all a bit abstract until we can see the  
designs in context. Do you have any examples of how you've implemented  
the pager? Screenshots?

> What do people think to this, and would you contemplate making an  
> official
> Fluid suggestion for this context?

I'm not sure our role is to provide "official Fluid suggestions," for  
other people's software, but we're always happy to share our advice  
and experience. :)

Colin

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org