On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 22 November 2011 00:14, Peter Gehres lists@pgehres.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
This has already been hashed out technically, and is doable. The only issue is getting people to standardize on a banner size, which I've tried for the past few months to get people to agree on, but with no luck. In order for this to work we need a benevolent dictator (Zach?, Erik?) to state that all banners (including chapter banners) need to be a certain height during the fundraiser. As it's not a high priority issue currently, I'm not sure if there's any likelihood of that actually happening. If people want to discuss further, the bug is at: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26234
FWIW, we have pretty much standardized on a banner height of 172px and,
to
my knowledge, have no plans to modify that. If we did, it would get smaller and not larger.
That doesn't appear to square with Ryan's statement. Is the banner height really 172px, i.e. will a 172px preloaded space really solve the problem?
- d.
I am in a better position to comment about banner size than Kaldari. It's not necessarily a good solution as we plan to bring the banners down for logged in users fairly soon. I assume that they would rather not have the jump in the reverse direction :-) I'm sure that we could have two separate pre-loaded empty divs (one for anon, and one for logged in) but that still does not account for project, language, and country variations.
Additionally, it has yet to be determined whether or not reserving the space has an effect on click rate. I could see reasons why it could effect it both positively and negatively.
- Peter