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An online playground with an instantly ready coding environment. Combine language preprocessors, CSS, HTML and JavaScript to create and share coding examples.
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Windows interface is offputting #4

Closed altryne closed 12 years ago

altryne commented 12 years ago

This is the case with most people I've shown fiddesalad to, the interface is very off-putting.

There are a lot of examples that use panels instead of windows, (jsfiddle,dabblet,jsbin) etc

Panels are more restrictive but it's might be a good thing, I think salad is way awesome, but alot of people who I showed this to won't give it a change because the UI is not very inviting.

yuguang commented 12 years ago

This is more a matter of opinion than usability. Windows are definitely more flexible than panels, and the current style of drop-down menus, and shortcut hints need that title bar for the window. Panelizing means eliminating title bars and putting the buttons on the side. This could be an option in the future, since people who come every day, learned the keyboard shortcuts, and always use the same languages favor more screen real estate. It would be great if I could do a poll on this.

altryne commented 12 years ago

I'm not saying it's not a matter or preference, but that's the main reason I've seen of everyone not using fiddlesalad exclusevly

yuguang commented 12 years ago

Apparently, you're right, like this guy tweets http://twitter.com/#!/OliverCaldwell/statuses/191930213108682753. I think an option for panels or windows in the home page would solve the issue. It would be a bit of work, probably a day to make a panel layout. The problem I have with panels is I don't get why people want them. If it's an issue with clutter, I would rather fix that first. Like "Hide titlebars". ... I like it.

altryne commented 12 years ago

I don't think the titlebars are the issue think of it this way, every IDE outthere has panels, or panes, whatever, coders are used to them, the can split their code, and see the result, I gues the main issue in fiddle salad right now that the documentation is HUGE while the code areas are very tiny, also the visual clutter doesn't help. say waht you will about panes/panels, it's easier to handle their interface

yuguang commented 12 years ago

Sounds like you want to do it. I can supply you with libraries and some instructions.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Alex Wolkov < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

I don't think the titlebars are the issue think of it this way, every IDE outthere has panels, or panes, whatever, coders are used to them, the can split their code, and see the result, I gues the main issue in fiddle salad right now that the documentation is HUGE while the code areas are very tiny, also the visual clutter doesn't help. say waht you will about panes/panels, it's easier to handle their interface

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