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Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
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Date: 
Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:49:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:

> If we're down to just three choices, suggest that each choice get its own
> submit button. That's faster even than a radio button, and WAY faster than the
> current drop down list. And that improves usability from a human factors
> perspective.

That's already been asked and answered (in the depths of this thread!) - reason
for not doing it is because when you use the list view (>1 post on same page)
it's more efficient just to have one submit button.


> Of course I realise that ease of use may not be your highest sort criterion
> when deciding what your LDT priorities are, and none of the rest of us have
> visibility to either the criteria or the priority list, which is fine.

True, but if we did it might quell the frequent "When is X likely to be
implememted?" questions? Although it wouldn't help stop the repeated "what
about doing this?" suggestions which might only be quelled by some sort of
feature/suggestion area, rateable or not :)

Richard



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  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) the (...) reason (...) Easy fix... Different views, different UI. In the list or tree view, use radio buttons and a single submit. In the single article view, use multisubmit. ++Lar (27 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) That's half the reason. The other half is keeping it small because it won't always be the only thing in the article footer. --Todd (27 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) If we're down to just three choices, suggest that each choice get its own submit button. That's faster even than a radio button, and WAY faster than the current drop down list. And that improves usability from a human factors perspective. Of (...) (27 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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