12658
Reporter: mdoering
Assignee: cvizitiu
Type: Improvement
Summary: Implement Newsroom usage tab
Description: Add the one liner below each image as a field to be entered by the author
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2013-01-25 13:02:52.774
Updated: 2013-09-02 13:46:34.188
Resolved: 2013-02-07 16:06:48.702
Author: cvizitiu@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-01 11:34:02.728
Updated: 2013-02-01 11:34:18.654
Part of the panel is already there at http://staging.gbif.org/drupal/newsroom/datause and it reveals already some problems:
1. What to do about the titles?
2. What to do about the layout not accommodating variable length summaries? Proposed solutions
2.a. Quit the
as it's not semantic anyway (an
for EACH row? What a hell?) and get to tabular layout; gaps will remain
2.b. Trim the summaries in software. But then we'll have to have a minimum summary lenth
I've already asked Tim Hirsh about thi.
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-04 11:58:38.463
Updated: 2013-02-04 11:58:38.463
1) What exactly is the problem with the titles?
2) Im not sure if I understand the problem either. Is it simply summary text size? I would suggest to just cut off the full text and show the first xyz characters followed by an ellipse which should be a link to the full page.
Author: cvizitiu@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-04 12:16:52.218
Updated: 2013-02-04 12:16:52.218
"Potential Geographic Distribution of Brown" instead of "Potential Geographic Distribution of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Invasion (Halyomorpha halys)". The layout forcefully cuts the titles by hiding the overflow in that box; the designers never thought about the issue of really long titles. :-|
Not only that, but the layout is not done with "tables" or any consideration of the fact that the summary will be of different sizes... so you can see the bottom of the boxes are no longer aligned.
Yes, my proposal would have been to cut the titles with either "..." or the usual "... more" but then that would ruin the looks of it because you'll have too many "...". The summaries themselves would also contain "...". :-s
Another proposal would be to FORCE the editors to have at least the summary of EXACTLY x letters but I'm pretty sure they're not gonna accept that! :-)
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-04 14:53:51.498
Updated: 2013-02-04 14:53:51.498
We use ... ellipses all over the portal when we need to restrict title or content length in summaries - lets do the same here.
For the size of the "boxes" we can simply also assigned a fixed height in addition to the width so they are all the same. This is definitely a simple, solvable css issue and we dont need tables. Just need to know more the maximum number of characters such a "box" can hold to apply the ellipses. But I agree I would have expected divs rather and a list. And if a list, then at least a single list and not one per row - that is really strange. Im more than happy to adjust the CSS to use a single list, what you think?
Author: cvizitiu@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-04 15:05:37.797
Updated: 2013-02-04 15:07:34.828
I would have gone for tables but yeah, I agree 120% that several rows of
is weird to say the least. Oh, check out the insult to injury: the last
is styled differently! :-@ Had lots of fun with the modulus operator in PHP!!! :-s :-s
I'm afraid there's some deep cross-browser issue to consider regarding the replacement of several
with a unique one! I'm not so brave to say let's do it because I haven't analysed their layout; IMHO let's keep it as it is for the moment, let's have it ugly but functional.
Please give me an example of ellipses; and how it is implemented? JS?
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-04 15:49:33.046
Updated: 2013-02-04 15:49:33.046
We shorten dataset titles here:
http://staging.gbif.org:8080/portal-web-dynamic/dataset/search?q=relative+content
or in the details:
http://staging.gbif.org:8080/portal-web-dynamic/dataset/69fc1498-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
its done in code by cutting off after a fixed number of max characters (the search number seems to high btw)
Author: cvizitiu@gbif.org
Comment: I think the issue is solved elegantly as Tim Hirsh agreed to impose a strict wording policy for both the summary and the titles.
Created: 2013-02-06 21:50:47.417
Updated: 2013-02-06 21:50:47.417
