UI module owner

[David Miller]

Joost 'AlthA' de Valk wrote on 6/26/06 6:11 AM:

>> - Work out a different way of integrating help
> 
> the [?] icons are the best options imho, especially because users are 
> used to that in other applications.

I like this idea, too.  This is a good use for AJAX, you dynamically 
load the contents of a popup <div> when the user clicks the icon.  An 
icon with a question mark is a LOT more obvious than hyperlinking the 
field names.

Something else I've seen done in other software is to have really short 
descriptions of the fields in a column on the right-hand side, which is 
shown by default, with links to "more info" on the ones that need more 
description, and a user preference to hide that help column.  Can't get 
much more obvious than that :)

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