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by: Cybermagic » Blog Archive » Streamlining long and unattractive web forms.

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:27:57 +0000

[…] You can find the ‘Streamline your forms with widgets‘ article at the Think Vitamin website. […]

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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:14:33 +0000

[…] Vitamin Article: Streamline Your Forms With Widgets And, in the learn something new every day category, here’s an article from Vitamin about fancying up your html forms. I really hate the word widget, but it’s a handy article. Vitamin is a sort of portal-style resource for articles on all sorts of web interests (but not Flash). They’re aligned with the whole 2.0/VC/Rails contingent, but have a good staff of experienced folks writing things. Add a comment: […]

by: CSS Ninjitsu Links | dBlogIt by Dustin Boston

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:10:11 +0000

[…] Vitamin Features » Streamline your forms with widgets “Using this technique, we’re able to save valuable screen real-estate and the user is, hopefully, less frightened by all those checkboxes. In addition, you’ll have much more freedom to style your dropdown controls to match the look and feel of your application.” I could have used a technique like this recently, but I was having some positioning problems so I had to ditch it. Nice walk-through. […]

by: Semplificare i form con i widgets - ReFactor.it

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:20:40 +0000

[…] In questo articolo viene presentato un sistema per semplificare, o forse sarebbe meglio dire compattare, un form complesso. […]

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Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:39:48 +0000

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by: Colin

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:50:58 +0000

edit: I understand, Adam

I work with an Andrew.. my mistake

by: Colin

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:25:44 +0000

I understand, Andrew, that sometimes it makes sense to choose your audience up front when developing a web app and make a decision whether or not to require javascript. But, in that respect, I think Vitamin failed to deliver to its audience here–obviously an audience of forward-thinking, unobtrusive JavaScript proponents and practitioners. It might have even been a good idea to say up front that the solution proposed here is not meant to gracefully degrade.

by: Ben Mauer

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:08:41 +0000

I want to echo other people on this thread that the code used is really poorly formed. I expect much cleaner and semantic code to come from a website that has such CSS heavyweights on its Advisory Board. “inner” divs? “wrapper” divs? Spans with the aesthetic rather than semantic class names (”light”).

Also, have you heard of fieldset?

Jason, in all honesty I think you should have just presented UI mockups and not gone into markup and CSS at all and this would be a much better article.

I would urge Vitamin to take this down and revise the code. I’ll gladly help. As a designer and developer I wouldn’t want to deal with this code on any project I was coming into.

Too bad…

by: Berg

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:31:05 +0000

JQuery library could be used instead of Prototype. The JQuery version would be something like this.

the following section goes before the entire form:

$(document).ready ( function () {
$(”a.dd_toggle”).click( function () {
$(this).sibling(”div.dd_option_panel”).toggle(”fast”);
return false;
});
});

and in the form the toggler anchors must be like this and no onclick behavior or anything else..

Overall, this widget is great and glamour… nice article. will surely try to use something like this..

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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:20:43 +0000

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