On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Steven Walling
<swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Also: we need to resolve the left-hand versus
right-hand close (X) icon,
if
we're talking about desktop consistency.
Almost every desktop web
product I
know, including us, favors close icons on the
right. What is the
rationale
for mobile taking a different path?
I'll note that both iOS and Android do 'back' (closest to 'close')
on
the top left, rather than the right.
Good point. For the record: I'm actually okay if mobile and desktop diverge
on this detail. It seems a compelling argument that on mobile we should pay
more attention to the OS-level patterns than on desktop.
But if we're going to start migrating the close icon to the left in desktop
products, as I have seen in some new designs, then you need to justify why
and how we should switch over. There literally is not one left-hand close
icon I can think of on the desktop site, if you don't count a few products
we very recently designed (like Media Viewer) to follow the mobile pattern.
Other desktop sites, including Twitter, Facebook, Google properties, and
others typically seem to use close on the right as well. I find myself
always looking to the right for a close icon on desktop web, despite the
fact that I am a longtime Mac user... Since the choice is apparently
arbitrary then we should not be mixing things on desktop.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/