localhost wrote:What I mean is.... aside from the other part of your website like CONTACT US, ABOUT US, ETC. The GALLERY itself should have this kind of login page as opposed to the use of the Native Login prompt that v.0.11 is currently have.
Although I agree the native login prompt is not attractive, and this can be improved, I am curious about why you are of the opinion that X3 should load a separate page just to show a login? It loads an additional page, does not provide any "cancel" functionality for those who clicked and find themselves unable to login, and basically provides absolutely no additional functionality whatsoever.
Although the page you are referring to does loads quite fast and looks quite pleasing, the borderline between "popup" and "new page" is kinda vague in this context. If we do change things in X3, it would be a beautiful "overlay" (often called popup) with a dark semi-opaque background (similar to the x3 image popup), with username/password prompt, and possibly some custom info+preview for the page that would be accessed. It would however
not load an entirely separate page.
I guess the scenario where it could look like that would be if the visitor navigated directly to the page from the browser URL (instead of navigating from the menu). In fact, I am pretty sure that is a compromise pixiset have made in this consideration). So in this case, then yes we could consider something like that. When navigating from within the X3 app (menu or link) however, we don't want to force additional clicks and payloads on the user or the application.
Imagevue X3 is an ajax application, and pixieset is not ... They load pages from scratch from every click, including all JS/CSS and re-rendering the scripts/css. In X3, it is important to keep a continuity. Just for reference, that login page takes 2-3 seconds to load from a fast connection, and loads in at 750 kb.
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dLTGAz/ ... nddaniela/