RE: [chairs] New OASIS website layout - categories

["Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@cordance.net>]

I just went to review it myself and found something even more disturbing. If
you click through to a category and start reading the list, a TC that has
been closed has a large heading "CLOSED" next to it. The problem is:

1) The heading is so big it looks like it delimits a whole section of the
list, i.e., those TCs that follow it are all closed. But that's not the way
it works - the "CLOSED" heading actually marks only one TC as being closed.

2) What's worse, you can't tell if it's the TC before or after the "CLOSED"
heading that's closed!

This needs fixing ASAP. Right now one of my TCs is at the bottom of the "XML
Processing" list and most visitors are going to thing it's closed!

=Drummond 
================
Drummond Reed
Co-Chair, OASIS XRI & XDI TCs
http://public.xdi.org/=Drummond.Reed


-----Original Message-----
From: Considine, Toby (Facilities Technology Office)
[mailto:Toby.Considine@fac.unc.edu] 
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 8:36 AM
To: 'Patrick Durusau'; David RR Webber
Cc: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [chairs] New OASIS website layout - categories

We shouln't need to rely on a mouse-over.  IMHO, UI design that requires
non-accessible clues (i.e., non ADA compliant) usually indocates a deeper
problem. . .

tc

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Durusau [mailto:Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org] 
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 11:27 AM
To: David RR Webber
Cc: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [chairs] New OASIS website layout - categories


David,

David RR Webber wrote:
> Team,
> 
> Is everyone finding the new 'find by Category' as confusing as I am?
> 

Yes! I was quite surprised by it and had to guess the probable location 
of my TCs.

If the categories confuse those of us in OASIS, I can only imagine their 
impact on visitors and more importantly, potential members.

A 'mouse-over' that shows the TCs in each category and the categories in 
alphabetical order would be an improvement.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

> I have to go to the "by name" option to find anything - especially my
> own TCs!
> 
> Also - the sequence is totally random - I'd prefer either
> 
> a) order alphabetically or
> b) group like things together - which appears to be the idea - but 
> missed...
> 
> Also - if we are going to do this - it would be much. much better if 
> we had a browse and drill-down style navigation - where you can see 
> what's in one of the boxes before you have to open it!
> 
> We could probably use the categories navigation as-is from
> registry.oasis-open.org and
> just put into a frame - if we were being clever here... some 
> brainstorming needed.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> DW
> 
> 
> 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/who/>
> OASIS Standards <http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php>
> How to Participate <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/join.php>
> Policies and Bylaws 
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> OASIS Technical Committees 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/overview.php>
> Committees by Name <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/committees.php>
> Committees by Category <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php>
>  ? Web Services <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=ws>
>  ? e-Commerce <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=ec>
>  ? Security <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=security>
>  ? Law & Government 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=lawgov>
>  ? Supply Chain
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>  ? Computing Mgmt <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=cm>
>  ? Application Focus 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=appfocus>
>  ? Document-Centric 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=doccent>
>  ? XML Processing 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=xmlproc>
>  ? Conformance/Interop 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=confint>
>  ? Industry Domains 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=inddom>
> 
> 


-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!