Re: [drupal-devel] reviews needed
You're lucky if you can get users to read the help text let alone try to understand some arcane formatting they've never seen before.
I am a big advocate for usability, but you can only bend over backwards THAT far. If they don't read the information, it's their problem. Sorry. As for the formatting, that is not so unfamiliar. A lot of websites have been doing this for years now.
It would be much better to put that text IN the input field and ask the user to complete the URL. Then strip that text back out again before saving the field.
What exactly is the difference? With "our" way You have <text><textfield>, with your way you have "<text:textfield>". Exactly how is this really going to make it more usable?
Even better again to suggest a complete, default URL for that node and asking the user to confirm it.
Welcome to pathauto.module. Kobus
FWIW, here's another suggestion about the contentious wording of the 'Custom URL' field: I'm currently doing some work on a custom CMS for an organisation's internal use. The CMS has been set up such that most pages of the site are required to have a 'Custom URL'. In this system, the field is called 'Shortname'. The name itself is pretty short, and perhaps not particularly useful to users who are complete newbies to the web (aahhh... URLs... so that's what the weird characters at the top of the screen are ;-)...). But there's a certain simplicity to it that I really like. In fact, by calling it 'Shortname', the user doesn't even have to know what a URL is. All they need to know is that they should type in a short version of the title, using only valid chars (i.e. letters, numbers, underscore, hyphen, etc). Surely this type of non-technical wording is good for usability? If 'Shortname' doesn't appeal to anyone else, I also think Sergio's 'Custom URL path' suggestion is pretty good. Jaza.
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FWIW, here's another suggestion about the contentious wording of the 'Custom URL' field:
Or we could ship with pathauto in core and only have the edit path alias be used by advanced users who know what they are doing. =) - -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDQ+E+gegMqdGlkasRAtlqAJ9YIKL7dwTmT1q6YTJPprcQPuoYrwCeM+TL 5gEZJst5/Qq/wyvbiAgpgms= =gd4E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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