[Opensource] Proposal: DBMaint UI Review

[Stephen Owens]

Michael,

Just a thought, have you followed accessibility guidelines in these? 508
compliance is becoming an important checkmark item, and a redesign seems
like a good time to think through some of those issues. One service you
can use to test for this is
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp, I'm sure there's
lots of others.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Rimov [mailto:rimovm at centercomp.com] 
> Sent: July 30, 2003 9:02 AM
> To: opensource at jcorporate.com
> Subject: [Opensource] Proposal: DBMaint UI Review
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been using an 'updated' DBMaint ui in my own projects 
> for several 
> weeks now that has been using a look and feel very similar to eForum.
> 
> The main features are:
> 	- "Brighter" interface colors.  Like eForum	
> 	- Roll-over top icons that highlight with the mouse over them.
> 	- Alternating row colors in list state [css controllable]
> 	- And most importantly: page jump navigation similar to 
> that in eForum
> 
> Sandra has already given me some feedback that I've tried to 
> include in the 
> latest prototype.
> 
> I've included 4 screenshots of this new look:
> 
> add.gif - Typical 'Add' shot
> updated.gif - Showing the screen that confirms that the 
> update finished list1.gif - List showing what happens when 
> there are no record in the table list2.gif - List showing 
> records and pagination all at mid-recordset
> 
> As I said, the UI for me has been remarkably stable.  There 
> aren't any 
> additional changes to the DBMaint code base itself [just jsp 
> pages] because 
> I had quietly added the pagination capability several weeks 
> ago :)  So I 
> don't fear any regression errors that are non-jsp related.
> 
> Tonight, I've ported all the icons, jsp and javascript code 
> over to the CVS 
> HEAD, but I have not checked it in.  I think it's only fair 
> to see what you 
> guys think. :)
> 
> Otherwise, Expresso 5.3 [was 5.1] testing is going well.  
> Been running it 
> live on one site and porting it in the next couple of days to 
> two more 
> sites.  The Expresso code itself has shown itself remarkably 
> faster in 
> several cases over the 5.0 code base, and I believe the 
> reduced memory 
> usage over the long haul may help.
> 
> I'm waiting for off-list feedback from a couple of folks on a 
> few issues, 
> and may have some minor work on BLOBs to do for some 
> databases. Once I get 
> the results back from jobs done, I plan on releasing RC-1.
> 
> Anyway, I look forward to your feedback!
> 							-Mike (R)
> 
> P.S.  I tried to keep the attachment size down, and hope that 50K was 
> sufficiently small for all of you.  Please let me know 
> off-list if that was 
> too large so I can adjust in the future accordingly.
>