On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Rob Lanphier
<robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Mark is making the case that we're fighting
expectations set by pretty
much
the rest of the web, and that we may need to make more of a change than
providing a more prominent hint.
I think we need a more prominent hint either way, and even more so if we
change existing behavior. The lack of that hint is the bigger problem; what
behavior we assign to up/down is the smaller one.
(Also, we are not talking about normal scrolling behavior either way, are
we? We are animating the panel on up/down, and we are talking about keeping
that animation, but reversing the directions. Not animating at all would
certainly be more consistent with the wider web, but also somewhat
inconvenient IMO, as there is little practical use in opening the panel
partially, and standard up/down key behavior is slow. I agree with Fabrice
here: if we want to change directions, we should reconsider the whole
metaphor. E.g. the chevron initially pointing up and then changing
direction doesn't really make sense in a scrolling model.)
FWIW, my mental model would be to press a down arrow. If there's a
metaphor here suggesting an up arrow, its not coming across to me.
But I may also just be old (young?) and cranky.
--bawolff