Hello Plone UI and Documentation teams.
In following of our UI meeting during the Sorrento European Symposium, we would like to create a sort of guideline document for the usage of webelements in the UI of add-on products. If we have a certain document, hopefully Plone add-on products can become consistent in their use of things like:
*
when to use dropdown menu's, checkboxes or radiobuttons
*
when to use a tab or just an extra field in the default
*
The OK / Cancel, Cancel / OK issue.
*
What to do with large drop down menu's.
*
How to fill in dates, via typing, calendars or whatnot.
*
The use of textarea, textlines and such.
*
Name. Is that last name, first name or both.
There are some tips written in the widget reference page, this can be used as well.
(
http://plone.org/documentation/manual/archetypes-developer-manual/fields/widgets-reference)
If it's possible, we would also like to see Accessibility guidelines, which can help think about blind or other handicapped users.
If we have created a nice list, with examples of usage, we would like to see it as an self-evaluation check on the add-on products page.
We would like to see this as a product made by the community, not just us, so we are looking for your help to create this document.
We are very interested in your thoughts about this subject. Any tips, additions, help or real life use cases, we thank you a lot.
Laurens Kling and Ralph Jacobs, Four Digits.
