[Pmwiki-users] Checkbox "This is a minor edit" cleared after preview

Bob Dively dive
Fri Feb 27 07:07:38 CST 2004


Mathias Dzionsko <madz at gmx.de> wrote:

> A little inconvenient: The checkbox "This is a minor
> edit" is always cleared after hitting "Preview".

Good catch!

On the topic of the preview functionality: I think that the
order of the Preview page ought to be reversed or split into
two pages (preview without the edit box on one page and then
a form back to the edit page). It's not obvious to the user
that they need to scroll down to find the preview text. (In
my case, if I don't scroll on the edit page and the click
the preview button, it looks like nothing has happened
besides the page being refreshed.) It's inconvenient for the
user who does know to scroll because he or she has to scroll
everytime.

As far as keeping the user informed about what they are
seeing on the page I've seen other wikis with preview
functionality that show the user the preview text with some
sort of faint watermark gif behind the page that says
"Preview" or something as a way of reminding them that they
still need to explicitly save their changes.

-b




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