Axel, thanks once again for excellent input!
I totally agree with your conclusion.
Hope we can get you as a beta tester.
Phil
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Axel Boldt axelboldt@yahoo.com wrote:
Am 11.04.2012 22:39 schrieb "Philip Chang" <pchang at wikimedia.org>:
We are considering ways to hide the top bar and calling it up easily, but the thought is to show it initially.
For example, the Pinterest app hides toolbars when scrolling down a page, and reveals them when scrolling up starts.
Another idea, based on the Kindle, is to show the toolbar initially and let it fade away, then a tap anywhere reveals it.
Yet another idea is to keep the toolbar at the top of the screen, then after scrolling down a page, a tap on top status bar of the phone scrolls quickly to the top of the page.
I think all three options are good; it's basically a matter of taste. Here's my taste:
My concern with the Kindle way is that you may find yourself on a page with lots of links or a big image, and there won't be a safe place to tap anywhere. The Kindle doesn't have that problem, but we do.
I like the third option for two reasons: people will know it from Safari, and it gives them a quick way to jump to the beginning of an article, which we currently lack. The downside is that some users will never figure out the tap-on-top shortcut, so they will constantly have to scroll like crazy up through long articles just to search.
So I wonder whether combining the Pinterest and Safari methods might be feasible? Best of all possible worlds, and all that.
Cheers, Axel
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