[dev] Interesting design element

[Mike]

I think it's a great idea, something like this has been on my list of 
things to look into for a little while now...

Thanks,
Mike

--On Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:51 PM +0200 Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> 
wrote:

> One of my customers modified the Kronolith (and some other too)
> interface to reduce some of the cluttering and complexity without
> loosing any functionality. We already have a similar feature in DIMP  but
> I wondered why we didn't think of it as a solution for other  interfaces
> as well. It's simple, beautiful, effective and we already  have
> everything in Horde to implement this.
>
> Take a look at the screenshots and you'll see what I mean. Parts of
> large UIs can be expanded and collapsed dynamically with a simple  mouse
> click, for example with Horde_Hideable. We don't need to change  any
> backend code, just need to make sure that all hideable elements  are in a
> single container. It gracefully falls back to browsers  without
> javascript. And it looks nice.
>
> I propose to use this in several places where we have very complex
> forms, the event and compose screens come to mind immediately, but  there
> are probably other places as well. What do you think?
>
> Jan.
>
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