Legacy Different Page Navigation in Games List
Darkwaltz4
Former Developer
its for consistency. besides, it defaults to the next page anyway when you click continue. that allows for skipping pages at the same time, and back button for the rest. how is this cumbersome?
Trekkan
Customer
Because if you look at any metrics of those who actually use they backspace on their keyboard to go back a page, I think it's something like less than 5% of users use it and less than 20% even know about it.
Consistency is good and I'm all for it (I'm the one arguing for it at work all the time), but sometimes consistency for the sake of consistency is shooting yourself in the foot. =) People are used to standard page navigation and well, this isn't standard. =) Not a big deal as it's on the admin page, but... just trying to make things better and bring up any issues I see. =)
Darkwaltz4
Former Developer
The standard page navigation in the admincp consists of...
on the first page:
[Next]
on subsequent pages:
[Prev][Next]
on the last page:
[Prev][First]
so, you are stuck going sequentially and cant jump to the end.
when i say consistency for this case, i meant consistency with vbarcade
since the technical restrictions (and performance implications) on the import process dont allow me to get a consistent number of results there, thus i came up with that, plus i never liked the restrictive vb version. with mine:
on the first page, and subsequent pages
next page: default current+1
[Continue]
That makes Continue, by default, act as Next. You can jump back to first page (with page 1) or any in between by typing in the desired page. when i said back button, i meant the one on your browser, which is thoroughly understood on how it works (even if the backspace one isnt).
Again, I fail to see how my version is hard to use or confusing; we are just arguing over which thing it should be consistent to.... in which case i definitely like mine better, because it overcomes the limitations of the old one, but is still one-button for the most common action (Next).
on the first page:
[Next]
on subsequent pages:
[Prev][Next]
on the last page:
[Prev][First]
so, you are stuck going sequentially and cant jump to the end.
when i say consistency for this case, i meant consistency with vbarcade
since the technical restrictions (and performance implications) on the import process dont allow me to get a consistent number of results there, thus i came up with that, plus i never liked the restrictive vb version. with mine:on the first page, and subsequent pages
next page: default current+1
[Continue]
That makes Continue, by default, act as Next. You can jump back to first page (with page 1) or any in between by typing in the desired page. when i said back button, i meant the one on your browser, which is thoroughly understood on how it works (even if the backspace one isnt).
Again, I fail to see how my version is hard to use or confusing; we are just arguing over which thing it should be consistent to.... in which case i definitely like mine better, because it overcomes the limitations of the old one, but is still one-button for the most common action (Next).
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