You’ve given a lot of feedback over the past three days about the new practice design! It is well appreciated. I’m not sure why, but it seems that Skritter users are uncommonly smart when it comes to this sort of thing–the feedback is great!
We’ve fixed almost all the bugs you guys found, and made many of the style changes. There’s still a lot left to do, but now you can test it in IE 7+, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or on a Mac, and it should work. Here’s some things we need more opinions on:
Flash alignment: We moved the Flash writing window from the right to the left. How do you like it? We’ve heard a few opinions on each side, so we’re considering making it a preference if enough people want it.
Zoom: We’ve got full page zoom working (Ctrl +/-), so please give that a try and let us know whether it works, how you like it, if you’ll use it, and if you had previously used 250px canvas size but will now just use page zoom.
Grade buttons: Hit the settings menu on the upper right to try these out. We’re very curious to know whether they make sense, so tell us what you expect that they’d do. Also, do they look good? Do they get in the way? Will you use them? Should they automatically go to the next prompt when you click them?
Keyboard shortcuts: Do you use them? Is it clear what the shortcuts are? Are they working on your system?
Tone shortcuts: Currently, pressing 1-4 will grade the current prompt. On tone prompts, however, 1-5 input the tone. Conflict! There’s a few different ways we could do it–how do you think it should work? Is it too weird that the keyboard shortcuts change? Do you want to grade yourself more precisely on tones, even though they’re so short? Would you want to use other shortcuts for tone number input?
General aesthetics: What looks good? What doesn’t? The review/added bars have been mentioned as an eyesore, as well as the tone buttons. What do you think?