Inline Edit: changing focus cancels edit?

[Eli Cochran]

+1 for supporting <Esc> for Cancel. It's a bit nerdy and a lot users  
won't know to do it. But there is some precedent for it.

- Eli

On Jun 25, 2008, at 10:07 AM, antranig at caret.cam.ac.uk wrote:

>
> Here is my view -
>
> If there are no visible explicit controls for Save/Cancel for the  
> individual
> field, focusing away from the field should commit the edit and not  
> cancel it.
> If there are visible controls, it should be configurable whether  
> focusing
> away leaves the field editable, or commits the edit.
>
> I think the important consideration is to not easily lose the user's  
> work,
> which would be very irritating - and to support the primary and  
> natural
> use of the widget which is to actually edit the text :)
>
> Hitting <enter> in a field is actually already an overloaded  
> operation - users
> used to Web 1.0 expect this to cause a form submission rather than  
> just a local
> commitment. Perhaps we should support <Esc> as a keyboard-driven  
> cancel
> operation, or else provide a dedicated button, rather than have  
> cancellation
> to be the "default function"?
>
> Cheers,
> A.
>
>
> Quoting Michelle D'Souza <michelle.dsouza at utoronto.ca>:
>
>> To add to the question, when should a 'cancel' happen and when should
>> a 'save' happen.
>>
>> On 25-Jun-08, at 11:40 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi, Allison and Daphne,
>>>
>>> I wanted to double-check one of the interactions on the inline  
>>> editor,
>>> to make sure we've got it right.
>>>
>>> The current interaction in question is this:
>>>   The only way to save an edit is to press Enter.
>>>
>>> i.e. if you're editing a field and you move focus away from the  
>>> field
>>> by pressing Tab of clicking on something else, any changes to the
>>> field are lost.
>>>
>>> You can experiment with this on
>>>
>>
> http://build.fluidproject.org/fluid/sample-code/inline-edit/announcements/announcements.html
>>> or
>>>
>>
> http://build.fluidproject.org/fluid/tests/fluid-tests/manual/inline-edit/InlineEdit.html
>>>
>>> So the question is: Is it correct that tabbing away or clicking
>>> elsewhere causes changes to be lost?
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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley