On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Gergo Tisza gtisza@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. :-)