I have increased the stay time to 8 seconds.
On Nov 5, 1:16 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote:
>
> > Instead of putting a timer on response.flash, I moved its location
> > to another location on the site that does conflict with any text.
>
> I like Gmail's approach to flash messages. They're not obtrusive, but
> they're still prominent enough to be noticed. And because they're
> relatively small, Google can reserve a portion of the page for them
> (which is otherwise white space), with the result that showing a flash
> message doesn't obscure other content, nor does it change the page
> layout.
>
> When I first registered at web2pyslices, I found the fade-out flash
> somewhat unhelpful, in that I didn't notice it until it was too late.
>
> OTOH, web2pyslices has a dedicated area in the UI header for the flash
> message, which is nice.
>
> Another thing I'd look at is to use color in the flash messages to
> indicate the message category. Notices of failed operations should
> look different from the routine "welcome back" message, IMO.
>
>
>
> > -Thadeus
>
> > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Sebastian Brandt
> > <snoogi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thnaks Russel for pointing that out. I think this is very nice.
> > Of course the message will be unread if the user is distracted, but
> > after the message is generated after user input in most cases I guess,
> > that should be no problem in my opinion.
>
> > Sebastian
>
> > On 5 Nov., 05:43, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> > > The problem with that is that if the user is distracted, the message
> > > fades out before he/she can read it.
>
> > > On Nov 4, 4:48 pm, Russell <russell.mcmur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi there,
>
> > > > A mild annoyance: Sometimes the response flash covers other text
> > on
> > > > the screen and, when you are doing lots of testing, you are
> > > > continually clicking it to make it go away.
>
> > > > My suggestion is to replace web2py_ajax.html line 36:
>
> > > > jQuery('.flash').click(function() { jQuery(this).fadeOut('slow');
> > > > return false; });
>
> > > > with:
>
> > > > jQuery('.flash').hide().fadeIn(2000).animate({opacity: 1.0},
> > > > 2000).animate({ opacity: 'hide' }, 2000);
>
> > > > This makes the response.flash fade in and then fade out. No
> > clicking
> > > > required.
>
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Russell
>
>
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