Hi Mick,

I would like to offer five recommendations here:

(1) The mouse cursor should change when the user hovers it over the scrolling pane of the MH2 Shout Box.  This signals to the user that the scrolling pane is something that can be clicked to trigger another event.


(2) At the moment, when the MH2 Shout Box is clicked at the front end, the whole webpage has to be reloaded in order to display all the previous shouts.  This can be quite unnecessary and tedious to wait if the webpage has a lot of modules and graphics to load, and especially if another component that is being used has to be abandoned and make space for the list of previous shouts in a new webpage.  In other words, and in the spirit of better web design, the act of showing the list of previous shouts should not be carried out at the expense of all the other elements and contents of the current webpage, and should be considered as just an extra feature or extension of the MH2 Shout Box that can be accommodated as an adjunct that is in temporary focus, and to be floated above the webpage in view.

Therefore, I would strongly suggest that two following choices be made available at the backend configurations to determine what format to use for displaying all the previous shouts without reloading the webpage after the MH2 Shout Box is clicked by the user at the front end:

• a simple pop-up window (without navigation tools, and make this the default)
  a pop-up modal (with or without partial darkening of the background)

(3) The list displaying all the previous shouts should be sortable according to:

• Name
  Date/Time
  Shout

(4) The list displaying all the previous shouts should have page navigation tools when the list is long.  Navigation should be done in AJAX so that page refreshing is not required.


(5) When I set the following date and time formats at the back end as follows:
Date Format: D j M Y
Time Format: g:i a

The formats are correctly shown in the scrolling pane of the MH2 Shout Box as:

Sun 23 Nov 2008 2:00 am

But the formats are rendered awry in the list displaying all the previous shouts as:

Sun 23 Nov 2008&11b15p;2:00 am

As you can see, there is the extra expression &11b15p; being embedded.



I hope that these are helpful.

Thanks.

SoundEagle

Hello Mick,

You are most welcome!

I look forward to the improved versions, and we may then appreciate even more of the purposefully playful sticking out of the Einsteinean tongue, whilst vociferously shouting further with your esteemed MH2 extensions.

SoundEagle

Hi Mick,

I hope that you have had a wonderful time during the festive season.

Thank you for implementing some of my suggestions.  I'll evaluate them and give you further feedback as soon as I am able to.  In the meantime, my recommendations are as follows:

[3] Sortable option is definitely attractive as it allows the user to find and focus on particular shouter(s) and/or particular shouts.

[4] Pagination is very useful and flexible in offering the user the choice of displaying 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50, 100, 200 or All shouts at a time, and also in permitting the user to jump to a previous, next or a particular sets of shouts.

[6] Search Plugin: This is something new that I am suggesting now ---- a search plugin that is integrated into the standard Joomla search, so that the user can include or exclude searching the MH2 Shout Box database.


SoundEagle at your service.

Hmm, a compromised immune system . . . . on your current journey of recovery, allow SoundEagle to hover over your spirit and turn you from a sick dog to a top dog !!!

Ahhhh!  Apart from rest, you simply need to have less of the bad spirit (CH3CH2OH or C2H5OH) and more of the good spirit (SoundEagle, Karma, Grace, Sensibility, Enlightenment, Muse and Inspiration. . . . just to name a few) to restore your wellbeing and to launch your next one thousand and one lines of absolutely brilliant codes !!!

  ::)SOUNDEAGLE

Yes, the options ----- soberly chosen by you without resorting to playing with a dice or the bad spirit.

Option 1 ?!?!  You got me there !! 


Kind regards,

The Spirited SoundEagle