Forum OpenACS Development: Re: .LRN user interface design

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38: Re: .LRN user interface design (response to 36)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 06/03/04 02:20 PM
Björn and myself are planning to enhance the message system to allow sending messages to users from outside the users session (e.g. "you got mail"). We could add a type to the procedure as well, which would display the message with an "id" of "message_$type" (e.g. "message_warning"). But I'm not so sure about the powers of CSS. Would it be possible to choose a different icon and colors based on the "div class id", defined in a .css file ?
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40: Re: .LRN user interface design (response to 38)
Posted by Lars Pind on 06/04/04 09:47 AM
I think that, for IA purposes, we should consider putting "You got mail" type messages somewhere other than this message bar.

The message bar is for direct feedback on the action the user just took. There's a causal relationship. You do something, then you see the message which confirms that you did something.

I'm afraid we'll be confusing matters if we use that same location/shape/color for other purposes.

What do other people think?

/Lars