On 4 November 2014 23:12, quiddity pandiculation@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
I actually don't think changing the video play button would be a good idea. Its important that users realize the file is a playable video. Having a prominent play icon is consistent with other sites (e.g. youtube), although arguably most other sites aren't using the thumbnail to also illustrate an article. If we were to do something along these lines, I would think having it be a non-default mode would be best, where the users could toggle discrete play button mode where the play button goes into the bottom corner or something.
I think the ideas in the onwiki thread were more along the lines of:
- Putting a control-bar along the bottom of the thumbnail, with video
controls, like the audio files have. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:My_Bloody_Valentine_-_Last_Supper.ogg
No. Adding yet more gunk to the page is a really terrible idea, violating the fundamental principles of only showing more stuff on the page when strictly needed. Good point though, the bad display does need to be fixed for audio files.
and/or
- Place the play-button-overlay somewhere other than the middle-center.
Perhaps bottom-center. Or bottom-left with a timeslider, like vimeo uses. https://vimeo.com/104966526
Moving the play button around, is much more an option. Again, I don't think adding more cruft is a good idea, but e.g. bottom-left without a timeslider, like BBC News does it, is also an option: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29919793%E2%80%8B
In Vimeo their *raison d'être* is for you to watch a video, so like with YouTube their interfaces are geared towards a totally different user outcome. Better examples are other news/reference sites, and YouTube/Vimeo *embeds* where the objective again is to provide an informational video which also illustrates the content, rather than
- YouTube embeds have a centred play button (with YouTube logo in the bottom right) - CNN.com has a centred play button (with words) - MSNBC.com has a top-left play button (with words) - CBC.ca has a centred play button (no words)
Etc.
J.