On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Either way, it's important to support both models.
We currently do that by
flashing the panel controls if you press the wrong direction - I think
that's a good approach but the implementation is basically unnoticeable and
should be made much more prominent.
It would seem to me that this approach assumes the user is wrong to
press "down", and needs re-education. 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. My personal experience concurs with this. The Snow
Fall example[1] (and many others like it) show how
fixed-image-position scrolling like we do is compatible with the
traditional expectation of up-arrow/down-arrow behavior.
Of course, I'm going to allow for the possibility that I'm cranky and
old school, and that I just need to learn to hit the correct arrow
key. :-)
Rob
[1]
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/