[drupal-devel] inline checkbox for attachements

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Bèr Kessels wrote:

> Op zaterdag 18 juni 2005 15:53, schreef Sohodojo Jim:
> > right alignment of attachments 2 and 3 respectively. And for good measure,
> > __1-alt text here__ could be used for adding an alt text attribute.
>
> This is what inline module does. Only ionline module uses the de-facto
> standard for drupal tookens: [inline: filename]  [inline: numer]
>
> What I want is:
> 1 something in core. This is a very-often requested feature
> 2 something very intuitive. No tokens, no HTML, nothing, only a radio or
> checkbox.

<advert>
upload_image does not even need a checkbox. :)
</advert>

> You might cvall my client stupid, but it took quite some time to let
> her grok the concept of the tokens. And still every now and again
> she has to look yup the syntax, or concept. That is simply Not Good.
> No-one should have to look up syntaxes, copy-pasrte filenames etc to
> insert stuff inline.

Requiring users to learn a new "language" or some tokens is a serious
case of bad usability, nothing else.

Cheers,
	Gerhard