Comments on: A SharePoint solution looking for a problem – the focused href

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:11:43 +0000

@Casper: Thanks for the feedback

By: Casper

Casper — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:06:23 +0000

Doesn't work in Safari 3/mac. Sounds like a good idea tho

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:26:43 +0000

@Berry: it doesn't have anything to do in SharePoint yet, but I can imagine there are a lot of different ways you could use it in combination with SharePoint.

By: Berry

Berry — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:06:52 +0000

Neat feature, but what does it have to do with SharePoint? A jQuery plugin would be more appropriate wrapper.

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:10:31 +0000

@Waldek: Yes, already thought that the bookmark would be possible. Maybe you\'d want to mention it in the manual accompanying the final version.

Making two links would probably be the easiest solution, but multiple selections would be cool though, allthough I guess that it could complicate the current code.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:06:18 +0000

@Johan: as for the bookmark it is supported by most browsers I believe. Simply add #bookmarkname to the URL and then include either an or in your page.

As for multiple selections: wouldn't it make it less clear? Sure there might be a situation when multiple regions on the page might be relevant, but wouldn't it be better then to send two links?

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:24:53 +0000

And maybe by using something like control (CTRL) to enable making a dual-selection? This would be useful for pointing out things like "If you click here, something changes overthere". Even more than two selections could be useful in some occasions, but a dozen or more would probably be overdoing it :).
And in case javascript is not working maybe there should also be a bookmark where the link is going to. This way, in the case the javascript is not enabled, the user gets linked to at least the correct paragraph the old way.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:24:51 +0000

@Johan: ;) there is a hidden feature. You can dismiss the selection using either Esc or Space (depending on the browser as Esc is not supported by all of them).

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:54:09 +0000

Yes, exactly what you mean, but maybe you\'d want to add a close button to the overlay so a user following the link can first read the highlighted part and the remove it and quickly read on to something interesting further down the page.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:39:37 +0000

@Johan: Cool idea! I really like it. Especially for troubleshooting. If you are able to pinpoint the exact solution/steps instead of reading the whole page: sounds like a time savior to me :)