Layout Customizer Keyboard Interaction

[Anastasia Cheetham]

On 29-May-08, at 8:28 PM, Allison Bloodworth wrote:

> 1) Please change the "This box cannot be placed any higher in this  
> column" message to "This box cannot be placed above a locked box."

Done.

> 2) ...If you drag the portlet in the upper-right hand side to the  
> upper left... you (properly) get a warning message.  when you then  
> immediately drag it over the upper right portlet... you *still* see  
> the message

I have filed a JIRA for this: FLUID-678. We'll decide today what the  
priority is.

> having the "This portlet may not be/this box may not be..." message  
> appear when your portlet hasn't even moved at least halfway into the  
> column the message is referring to is confusing, and like his  
> suggestion that it not appear until at least 60% of the portlet is  
> in that column.

This implementation would likely be quite difficult. I suggest we  
leave it as it currently is, and see what user testing finds.

> ...experienced some weird flashing and resultant difficulty in  
> moving portlets around today

Hm. I'm not sure exactly what you're describing, but there *are*  
issues with dragging very quickly. We have no control over the order  
in which events arrive at the browser, and sometimes when two events  
are almost simultaneous, they arrive in the 'wrong' order. We've done  
our best to account for this in the code, but there are some cases we  
can't really do anything about. Perhaps this is one of those cases...

If you do find a way to reproduce it relatively consistently, let us  
know, so that we can investigate it more specifically.

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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