[daisy] [GSoc] daisydiff progress update 3

Guy Van den Broeck guyvdb at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 05:17:54 CDT 2007


thank you for the feedback!

> I would suggest some minor usabilty 
> enhancements in order give the user more control and flexibilty to 
> navigate through changes. (please see comments below)

Maybe this is a good time to tell you about this week's changes:
-all changes are linked to the previous and next one. When you click a
change the pop up has 'back' and 'forward' buttons.
-there is a 'go to first change' and 'go to last change' icon in the
header above the content diff.
-i added shortcuts to walk through all changes. for instance when you
want to go to the first change on a page you can press [left arrow]
right after the page loads. After that you can use the arrow keys to go
back and forth quickly.
-the selected change is highlighted in orange for 2 seconds
-the explanations for the curly underlined changes are now in a somewhat
human readable form.

I believe these changes by and large solve the usability problems.
Unless of course I'm overlooking a certain use case.

> I would like to see some kind of navigation panel for diffs. Right now 
> you have to go to "Versions" and choose one combination of versions to 
> compare with. When you like to compare a different version you have to 
> go back to the list and choose another.
> 
> A small navigation panel on top of the diff-view would help to choose 
> version combinations without going back to the list of central list of 
> versions. Further more it would be possible to directly jump from a 
> normal page-view to a diff-view without going through another dialog 
> where all the versions are getting displayed.

I also would like the diff page to be more prominent and easily
accessible. I'm not sure how the people at outerthought feel about this.
In the end Daisy is not a html diffing tool.



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