On 1/23/2009 12:06 PM, Paul Ryan wrote:
I prefer the bolding of values because that is the thing your modifying. Bolding of the name implies something special about that name which is not the case here.
George, I was going to disagree with Paul but, having looked back more carefully at what distinction the bold is intended to indicate, I would come down tentatively on the side of bolding the values. As I understand your question, the distinction you're drawing with regard to attributes is not intrinsic to those attributes, but is totally dependent on whether the user has entered a value in that instance. Am I right? In that case I think the distinction is a distinction of value, not of the attributes themselves, so it would make more sense to bold the value. (Or both.) My 2 cents... Thanks for asking. Lars
-- Paul Ryan
-----Original Message----- From: oxygen-user-bounces@oxygenxml.com [mailto:oxygen-user-bounces@oxygenxml.com] On Behalf Of George Cristian Bina Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:55 AM To: Oxygen User Subject: [oXygen-user] What is better: bold the names or bold the values?
Hi,
We need your feedback on one of the oXygen 10.1 features. We implemented a new XML Schema editor where XML Schemas can be edited visually. The properties of the selected component are available in a side view (Attributes view). Now, some attributes are specified by the user, some other have default values. For marking the specified ones we though of two possibilities:
- bold the attribute names as you can see in
http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/boldNames.jpg
or
- bold the values, as you can see in
http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/boldValues.jpg
Do you have a preference for any of these?
Best Regards, George