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RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well desig
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed? |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:15:02 -0600 |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> In the design I use (one example; I don't claim
> there is no better approach):
>
> * A user can choose to never provide such links.
>
> * Otherwise:
>
> . If a user doesn't want to pay a time penalty
> of finding out beforehand whether a given
> symbol is actually covered in (some set of)
> manuals (the set being decidable by the user),
> the action of the link is called out as
> _checking_ for the symbol in the manuals.
> IOW, the link is, in effect, a _search_ link.
>
> . If a user wants to pay a penalty of checking
> beforehand, a link is created only if a target
> is known.
That sounds like a reasonable way to work around the performance impact.
Another way to solve this is to remove the performance impact. Then the
user don't have to make any choice: the link is shown when its relevant.
(We could still make showing the link optional, of course, if we think
some users will want to disable it.)
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, (continued)
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Peter Dean, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Peter Dean, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/02/27
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/28
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Drew Adams, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/23
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Drew Adams, 2021/02/23
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?,
Stefan Kangas <=
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Drew Adams, 2021/02/23
Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/22