Re: Too much clicks

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 12 Jun 2005, at 10:43 pm, <::... SchAmane ...::> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> i am a little busy at this time, much work most be done at work and
> nearly i get exams in the Uni. So i am sorry, i dont do anything about
> web-services at this time, if some body will continuer my work, its 
> very
> welcome, please contact me personaly. I get continue my work as soon i
> get a little more free time for this.

No problem. This was partly the reason I set up the list - so it was 
easier for us to keep in contact.

> Another think, what i will write ontopic:
>
> If you are logined to the site, you must every time make one more 
> click,
> after every action. I see this need if action goes throw errors, you
> must inform user about errors. But if action ends successfull - there 
> is
> no need to make user wait and ask for one more click. Action is 
> allready
> done. There is no need for confirmation.
>
> So possible solutions:
> 1. Remove this at all, do report only if there is an error.
> 2. Do javascript redirect after 1 second and inform user about
> redirection (not so good, make unnecesary server load).
> 3. Think about globak AJAX usage on page. This is more complex
> sollution. You can put content on page without reloading whole page. As
> soon user click to submit butoon on the page, you make HTTPRequest and
> update only part of the page, so you can inform about making 
> submittion,
> than do show results and move user to content hi made.
>
> What you think?

Yes, I agree. I had been wondering whether to implement (2) but wasn't 
sure of the javascript but perhaps (1) is a better option. The only 
reason I hadn't done it this way in the first place was that it is too 
easy for someone to press refresh on their browser and submit the data 
again. So the "Continue" button means they no longer have POST data 
associated with that page. Do you think this should be a concern? It is 
a problem when people refresh after submitting comments because the 
comment ends up being posted twice. In most of the other places though, 
I don't think it is as critical.

-Thomas