Changes below. Note that most icons are placeholders.
=== New Changes ===
* Added "watch" button to button ribbon
* Shadow only appears on scrolling; disappears and turns to solid border when not moving.
* Added icons to article action elements
* Turned "more" action into a single pulldown
* Edit buttons now have secondary pull down for additional actions (edit source, insert image, etc.)
* Section edit link buttons are now standard "white" color until hover, where they turn blue.
* Targeted sections now have a slight border in addition to light color fill
* Removed border from Table of Contents
* Left aligned TOC header
* Search placeholder text is now replaced with article title on scroll
* All menu items now have icons (placeholders, mostly)
=== Bugfixes ===
* Fixed issue with hoverstate on H2 sections and striping (set background color to transparent rather than white)
* Fixed border radius issues with internal button ribbon
Brandon,
This is awesome! The latest version is extremely clean.
Some ideas...
Needs moar serif h elements, ala the typography refresh. :)
It would be useful to add some thumbnail images to see how they are included.
It would cool to have you user test this, either with some directed usability tests in person or via usertesting.com. I can help write a script if you want.
In particular, I would like to test findability of many elements and interaction with areas such as search. A huge advantage might be putting search in a dropdown on-page from any point in the article, as opposed to making users scroll to the top and then go to new page for results. It would be cool to see this included in the prototype, even if only one fake search could be returned.
I'm a little concerned that transforming the page title in to an element of the search box could be confusing. That looks like a search suggestion a little bit. I could be totally wrong though.
My biggest suggestion: we should definitely prioritize having on-page Edit, History, and Discussion in the fixed toolbar too, if we can. As I am scrolling through an article, these are probably more important to have in-context access to than the user-related items (with the exception of notifications). This would also have the advantage of potentially letting us remove the section edit links, and just carry one prominent edit link in the toolbar, where ever you are on a page.