I appreciate the great work done on the notebook, but I noticed a few usability degradations in the 2.4 notebook, having to do with focus of input cells. I think these are due to the introduction of syntax highlighting in cells without focus. The highlighting is useful, but the following problems arise (at least in both Firefox 1.5 and 2.0)
- If an input cell has focus, and the firefox window loses focus (e.g., "focus follows mouse") and then regains focus, the input cell has lost focus! In 2.3, the input cell that had focus before the pointer left the firefox window, would regain focus, and that feels natural. I find the 2.4 behaviour confusing. - If I select text in a cell that does not have focus by dragging the mouse (i.e., either another cell has focus or no cell at all), then in 2.4 the cell with the selected text does not gain focus. In 2.3 it did. If you subsequently try to delete the selected text by pressing "backspace", the key press goes to the main browser window instead of the cell and you go to the previously visited page (shortcut for the "back" button) I can see how having text highlighting forced you to chance the cell type from "text input" to "html text block" or so and that an explicit click is needed to capture the event of gaining focus. However, the resulting interface behaviour feels very unnatural and sluggish to me (to the point of feeling uncooperative), whereas the 2.3 behaviour was quite natural and felt accommodating by comparison. If it really turns out to be a choice between syntax highlighting and sensible focus behaviour, I would have a serious preference for the focus behaviour, i.e., 2.3. Unfortunately I don't have the knowledge to assess whether that's the case, but I'm sure the notebook team has. bugtrac has been filed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
