pbroderi (2/28/2008)

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First off, I really like the application and am finding it very useful. However, I have a couple UI enhancement suggestions and they are in order of how much they annoy me.

1) The loading gif is displayed for a really long time. If this is a timeout you set in js I suggest only making it a second at most, just something that is annoying me a lot because it makes the entry process painfully slow.

The loading image displays for the duration it takes the asyncronous postback to occur. Loading time for me is typically a few seconds at the most.

2) Definitely low priority but I think it would be nice to have JS auto calculate calories when working through the form. I know that it calculates it server side after submit but if you have time down the road it would be nice to see it before submit.

I'll consider this.

3) A message would be nice when doing a live search for a food and it isn't in the database. Right now it just resets to the Start Typing to select a food.

I'll consider this also.

4)Not a UI thing but I keep seeing a JS error in Firebug: [Exception... "'Permission denied to get property HTMLDivElement.nodeType' when calling method: [nsIDOMEventListener::handleEvent]" nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location: "" data: no]Line 0

This application doesn't really support Firebug/Ubuntu. More than 90% of our members are running IE/Firefox on Windows, so that is really the core group that I am focusing on. Not that I want to exclude this OS/Browser combo, but it just isn't the priority.