This is not something major, but it kind of bugs me that in the observation pages ( both on the app and in the site) the order is Comment on the Left, ID on the right, but on the Identify pop-up windows it is the reverse.
The user experience should be consistent.
Observation:
Identify Pop-up:
Do you click on those button in Identify, or do you use the keyboard shortcuts?
I click on the button, usually.
They were originally consistant, it got changed in one of the places because a button was too close to somewhere that was problematic if you missed with your click! It took a while to get used to the swap too…
Oh, I can find my way around it. My point is just that it would be a better user experience if it was consistent, rather than training the users.
Thanks star3, this explains why whe using my tablet to do some quick identifying late at night I have repeatedly thought I was experiencing a failure of connectivity somewhere…only to eventually find i was typing in the wrong place. I wondered why I was being so absent-minded.
Ah, OK. I will say the Identify page is designed to be used with keyboard shortcuts, it really makes it quite fast, so I recommend giving it a shot that way. Although yes, if you’re just using a touch screen the keyboard shortcuts aren’t an option. :/
Yeah, I’m 50/50 between using my phone browser and a laptop. :)
Ok, if the order is optimized for speed on a keyboard , then I guess I want to update my request to specify the Observation page order should match the Identify page order.
P.S. I realize that if this does get approved, it’s going to be very far down the list of updates.
(going through some old feature requests)
If that’s the case, then (at least to those who read left to right, which is how the site is designed) the Identify tab would be to the left and would be the active tab, at least in my mind that’s how it should work. That then prioritizes adding IDs rather than comments on the observation pages, which I don’t think is what we want to do there. But maybe it’s not that big of a deal.
This isn’t something we’ll be going forward with, so I’m going to close the request.
