On Commons it seems to take 5 seconds to disappear which is too long as at this point I'm wondering how to dismiss it. A good ui pattern would be for it to fade out over those 5 seconds to show me what is happening and when I hover over it go back to no transparency to signal that it will fade automatically and I need to move my mouse over it to stop this.
FWIW I think clicking anywhere outside the box should make it disappear.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
There is a huge usability issue with the current implementation. I just watched an article on commons and got a notification bubble, I
then
tried to use the down arrow to click global usage and couldn't actually
get
to the menu.
The notifications time out after a few seconds, but the timeout doesn't trigger if you're mousing over them (so you're not accidentally losing a notification just as you're about to click in a link on it or whatever). Perhaps mousing over the down arrow could automatically dismiss any open notifications.
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