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On 04/25/2013 10:39 AM, Jon Robson wrote:
I'm beginning to exhibit raging hatred of the
right nav concept...
Firstly.. Ergg. two settings is confusing (site and user) - they
should be the same page and there is no reason why they can't be. It
would be great if when logged in the settings page morphed from device
specific to user specific. Would be great to be able to activate alpha
on all my devices.
I agree with everything, but "raging hatred" :)
In terms of a right nav, the more I think about it and
having played
with a prototype I knocked up, the more I think a right nav is bad.
Although it seems to be becoming an established pattern it seems like
an easy option that in my opinion is badly implemented. We can do
better and should lead by example. For one I never touch the Facebook
one... it just doesn't come natural. I also don't like the idea of 2
menus. I wonder if we could envision 2 stacked menus that can be
toggled between and persist when selected.
Or possibly have some menu options hidden? Sort them by what user taps
most often (or would it be confusing?). Or maybe just do what we first
thought about and divide the menu into two sections for now (even
without section titles, they don't seem necessary). There's still some
room in the menu on a typical smartphone screen.
I would still reserve the space on the right side for something like
notifications icon (like this:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Athena-Wikimania-2012-Echo-BrandonHarris…
but more mobile friendly).
Also, when you say Facebook do you mean their mobile web site or the
app? The site doesn't have any right menu for menu so I guess the latter.
The thing that bugs me most is that when you move your
finger over the
left hamburger button and press it the page moves to the left. Your
finger is still above the button. This doesn't apply to the right
menu. Your finger is now above something else. This to me is very
jarry and always feels icky.
I don't understand. When I press our current hamburger, the page moves
to the right and my finger is over the Home button...
It still leaves the question of where things such as
watch star, talk
page link, edit, move and delete buttons go.
The bottom would make sense for an app, but position fixed is buggy in
the majority of current mobile browsers and we will need a fallback of
some sort.
I'm not saying that I'd like them to be using position: fixed, but it's
been really bothering me for a long time that we can't use it reliably.
I propose a spike to check again if there is a good solution to this
problem (maybe a JS lib) or how difficult it would be to implement a
fallback (recalculating position on scroll). Should I write a Mingle card?
--
Juliusz
