[Improvement] "retrieve full message" out of page

[g00fy]

Inside a thread, when you're at the bottom of the page, click on "Retrieve Full Message" then it loads up, but out of view.
My proposal here is to use something like the prototype function "scrollTo" to put the left top corner of the newly opened mail in the left top of the screen thus displaying the email immediately after it opened.

-- Also when opening the mail I think it should fade to a loader, and then fade from the loader to the final message.

[joegeck]

I went ahead and copied your request into our bug tracking database. I can't guarantee it will get implemented but the developers will take a look at it.

http://www.wgmdev.com/jira/browse/CHD-413

[g00fy]

Thanks Joe :)

[jstanden]

The animation should be simple using YUI. I think we're probably spoiled by broadband on our end. We'll have to throttle our connections and Q/A the UI like it was 1994. ;)

As for the scrollTo -- that should be easy. Technically a good old-fashioned <a href="#anchor" onclick="blah();"> would probably do the trick.

[g00fy]

I have broadband too (or at least what's called broadband in this backwater country). But yesterday the internet was really slow here... For example I went to "my account", I saw the headers appearing, but nothing showed up under it for around 15s... So I was like "huh?" & clicking on other stuff, but "nothing happened" (with quotes because in fact I didn't see anything happening).
This ofcourse is true for the entire site.

My thinking would be to change it to something like this:
- initial fading animation?
* Y: show loader div immediately
* N: hide it
- start fade out: show loader div (fade in of 1/5th of the speed of the fade out)
- start fade in: hide loader div (fade out of 1/2th of the speed of the fade in).

Yeah, the scrollTo would be easy, and it would help the usability a lot (less manual scrolling ;)).

[jstanden]

Yeah, the scrollTo would be easy, and it would help the usability a lot (less manual scrolling ;)).

Alright that's done, that tweak will go out with the next update to SVN (before I head off to bed for the night).

My thinking would be to change it to something like this:
- initial fading animation?
* Y: show loader div immediately

Yeah, there's an open task on the roadmap for us to create a reusable modal loading div (like our floating panels). It could possibly be used for this as well.