[Python-Dev] Please revert autofolding of tracker edit form (original) (raw)

Westley Martínez anikom15 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 02:02:44 CEST 2011

On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 16:27 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > I would like to try putting the comment box after the last (most > recent) comment, as that is the message one most ofter responds to. > Having to now scroll up and down between comment box and last > message(s) is often of a nuisance. >

While that sounds logical, I think it will be a usability problem. If someone doesn't see a the comment box immediately, they may not know to scroll down past dozens of messages to find it. Rather that being trial-and-error amateur web page designers, it would be better to follow proven models. All of the following have the comment box at the top and the messages in reverse chronological order: * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393587 * http://digg.com/news/entertainment/top12gameshowsofalltime * https://twitter.com/

Raymond

How 'bout no? YouTube uses this and it's horrid and unnatural, and bulletin boards have been using chronological order for whiles with great success. Reverse chronological order has a niche for feeds, updates, whatever you want to call it, but when it comes to following a discussion it's much easier to start with the first word.

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