On 6/5/14, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Mark is making the case that we're fighting expectations set by pretty much
the rest of the web, and that we may need to make more of a change than
providing a more prominent hint.
I think we need a more prominent hint either way, and even more so if we change existing behavior. The lack of that hint is the bigger problem; what behavior we assign to up/down is the smaller one. (Also, we are not talking about normal scrolling behavior either way, are we? We are animating the panel on up/down, and we are talking about keeping that animation, but reversing the directions. Not animating at all would certainly be more consistent with the wider web, but also somewhat inconvenient IMO, as there is little practical use in opening the panel partially, and standard up/down key behavior is slow. I agree with Fabrice here: if we want to change directions, we should reconsider the whole metaphor. E.g. the chevron initially pointing up and then changing direction doesn't really make sense in a scrolling model.)
FWIW, my mental model would be to press a down arrow. If there's a metaphor here suggesting an up arrow, its not coming across to me.
But I may also just be old (young?) and cranky.
--bawolff