[thelist] Web UI Question

Hershel Robinson hershelr at netvision.net.il
Wed Dec 10 05:23:06 CST 2003


I received the following from thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org <>
 on Tue, December 09, 2003 3:36 PM:

> Hershel Robinson wrote:
>> When he goes back in to edit one of these numbers, then it jumps to
>> the left again. This IS a bit weird, but the display looks nice.
>>
>> Any one have any thoughts on this?
>
> Ask some users. Or even better, run some usability tests and watch
> what the users do - if they seem unduly distrurbed by it, ditch it.
> Personally it sounds just fine to me - I've seen interfaces that do
> this before (doesn't Excel do exactly this?) and never been
> troubled by them.

I abandoned this when I saw that if you try to select part of existing text
with the mouse, it's impossible because after the onmousedown event, the
text switches to left justified and jumps away from where it was. :)

Hershel



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