Thanks for the feedback guys. Lindsey - Patrick also mentioned putting them on the left. I've seen evidence to suggest controls work better on the LHS [1] but I'm not sure if those findings do not apply to mobile development where the screen size is so much smaller - Patrick - where does getCopyright() pull content from? Is it from a special page? Likewise where does the footer come from - I'm interesting in experimenting with my local media wiki instance. All - I'll like to see a preferences sub page which does things such as disabling images. I'd expect in the new look the logo would hint better that it is a drop down menu and that menu would make sense to have a settings link which contains these sort of things. The question is what do we do with them in the mean time? Leaving them in the footer seems like the obvious choice but it removes a lot of the wow factor, so maybe putting them in the menu which has yet to be styled might be more suitable. Arthur - FWIW (and off topic) I hate that the mobile site link is right at the bottom of the desktop page. If I'm on a slow connection/device this is the place i don't want it to be as I have to scroll to it/wait for content to load. I'd much rather it was at the top of the page as I can easily flick to mobile where necessary.
[1] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/horizontal-attention.html
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Lindsey Smith lsmith@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yes, I think it makes more sense to move the arrows to the left hand side, as is typical in an accordion style list. I haven't seen a working prototype, do the arrows change orientation when the header is expanded?
Prototype is here : http://jonrobson.me.uk/wikipedia/#
--tomasz