[RFC] AJAX Quick Edit

[Senky]

...I'm cool with the animation as it is.

Maybe we could try slideToggle or fadeIn/fadeOut effects - it looks better for me...more professional I would say...

[Marc]

Again, this is not perfect. Instead of that animation a loading image should probably look best. FadeIn didn't work really good as far as I remember. The quickedit button was just added as this was meant as an implementation into phpBB 3.0 and I didn't want to replace the function of the normal edit button.
Changing the button from "Advanced Edit" to "Full Editor & Preview" shouldn't be a problem at all.

[DavidIQ]

FadeIn/Out does some funky things to text on the page in the fade section so I'd not use it for this.

[brunoais]

For the preview, we could use a nice modal window (with the result ) just above the textarea that uses the space between the textarea and the top of the window. If the text is too big, there can be scrolling.
This is probably also less server intensive.
Whatcha think?

[Marc]

If someone wants to see a preview it's IMHO not a quickedit anymore.

[brunoais]

^ I'm ok with that

[wGEric]

Animations are good to let the user know something's going on. It confuses me when I do something on a website and there is something actually going on in the background but since there is no indication of that I start making assumptions like "the website's broken", "the form didn't work", etc. and then I try again. Perhaps a different indicator would be better?

Isn't an edit box showing and disappearing enough indication that something is happening? Showing the edit box should be instant. Adding a loading indicator just to show the edit box makes no sense. It doesn't need to load anything. Saving the edit can have a loading indicator. Although you could probably get away with changing the contents of the post instantly and only notifying the user if saving the post failed.

[Marc]

A few things that need to be decided:

• Should the edit button in the mcp also have a quick edit function?
• How about the PM area?
• Include BBCodes or not?

I'd say don't add BBCodes especially since the quick reply doesn't have bbcodes either.

[brunoais]

A few things that need to be decided:

• Should the edit button in the mcp also have a quick edit function?
• How about the PM area?
• Include BBCodes or not?

• Hum... It's not bad to have but... Is it useful?
• My answer is Yes!
• No. If you want it in your forum use an extension

[Senky]

IMO:

In MCP - definitelly - moderators need this as much as common users...

PM area - I am not sure, for now, maybe it is enough for pots only... but if it is not such problem to implement it in PMs, why not...

Do not include BBCodes, as you said, they are not included in QR, too...