That's how its currently implemented (with an
attribute named mode). How
it all works (Or even if it gets adopted), will depend on the sort of
feedback I get.
You're 100% right, that this would not work well with the COM:QIC
workflow, and there are many places where the captions are important. But I
would argue there are many places where people just have captions as a
place holder text since there is a spot for a caption (Many [not all]
galleries on commons fit this description). In particular, the captions on
the auto-generated galleries in category listings are pretty useless, and
could easily be replaced with something triggered on hover.
Even in encyclopedic contexts, a gallery is used as a collection of
pretty pictures, and the caption is a sort of "see also" text to provide
further context for if one of the images catches the reader's eye.
--bawolff
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Daniel Schwen <lists(a)schwen.de> wrote:
If this should find its way into core, it should
be made optional
(using an attribute of <gallery>)! Please be aware that this would
instantly destroy gallery applications like COM:QIC. Also from a
usability standpoint hiding the captions is probably not always a good
thing. Especially in the context of an encyclopedia rather than a
"pretty picture" site (like flickr).
Daniel
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:36 PM, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[Cross posting to commons-l and design list]
Hi all,
Over the last couple days, I've been looking at making our <gallery>
tag
a
lot more slick. Compared to other websites, our
galleries look very
"boxy"
imo. This isn't that bad when it comes to
icon/clip art type media,
but for
photos I feel we could really do better. So
I've tried to make the
galleries
be more compact, with rows of images all the same
height but different
width, and the caption visible on hover. The only downside to this is
the
borders of the gallery become a little ragged,
which mostly looks fine
to me
(Possibly could be dealt with with js. Would
involve a bit of double
loading
the images though).
A demo speaks louder than words, hence:
*
http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Featured_pictures/…
(contrast with
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Non-photographi…
)
*
http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Featured_pictures/…
(contrast with
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Fish)
*
http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Main_Page
Additionally the wiki is open to editor (You need to register an
account
first), so please don't hesitate to
experiment.
Anyhow, this is all still a work in progress, and I would really
appreciate
your feedback/criticism/hate mail/love
letters/etc.
--
Thanks,
Bawolff
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