Op 7 okt 2010, om 21:34 heeft Andrew Gray het volgende geschreven:
On 7 October 2010 14:23, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
Main reason being that, although the buttons are highly useful (and I can't imagine any big usercase in which they would be unwanted), so aside from that.... they are also in a very visible area that lots of scripts, tools and applications do or could potentially use to print their buttons and all sorts of triggers aswell. In order to not further complicate that area (eg. "Oh I can't program it here because some of the users of this particular script puts the buttons there also..");
Now you mention it, I'm really surprised I haven't seen anything else using that big white-space area. But it seems a bit odd to keep it empty just in case someone else wants to use it, especially when making these prominent is so useful.
A useful solution might be to implement an option to have the "normal" sharing buttons display below the images, and then anyone writing a script which wants to use the right-hand side can include the trigger for that function - move them out of the way in order to add in your new exciting rotation tool or what have you, but not affect them the rest of the time. As long as that second tool is itself an opt-in option, this wouldn't conflict too much...
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Just in case we misunderstood eachother, I didn't mean that it's a problem that the icons are as big as they are now at the position they are now (large and in a vertical row next to the image) However, I'm just saying that it's good to keep it that way (atleast not providing an option like: StockPhoto.position.options = ["top left", "bottom right", "upside down here", "funky cool there", "small icons in the corner", "big icons in the footer"];
I totally agree that it is odd to keep the space empty just becuase someone could use it. We are the ones using it now, so that's fine. But just keep it consistant way :-)
-- Krinkle