Thanks for reviving this discussion. :)
This issue has been brought up a number of times before, and it seems worth reconsidering,
if we can find a practical solution that could be implemented quickly, before we switch
our focus beyond Media Viewer in coming weeks.
For example, we could revisit the ‘metadata panel’ metaphor and think more of a ‘page
section’ concept instead.
Medium.com (1) offers wonderful design examples of how a page
can start with a fullscreen cover photo on top, and contain more information below — and
Flickr (2) also used a similar approach, as shown in the links below.
I recommend that Pau look into an alternative design along those lines, create a quick
prototype and discuss it with users — and if the response if favorable, review it with the
team at our next planning meeting, to see if that idea could be implemented in our
timeframe.
For now, I have started a ticket on Mingle to track this request:
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/697
Thanks for keeping us honest, you guys :)
Fabrice
(1) Medium page:
https://medium.com/book-excerpts/secrets-of-the-stacks-4ca8405f1e11
(2) Flickr screenshot:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1wZvLx_Q-bpCCMBjz2Y6…
On Jun 5, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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/
On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Which is more intuitive depends on your mental model.
If you think of the metadata panel as something that opens and closes, pressing up to
bring it up and pressing down to bring it down makes a lot of sense. If you think of it as
part of the page, that is currently out of view, it's the opposite. The current layout
of MediaViewer reinforces the first model, IMO, with the image not scrolling when the
metadata panel moves.
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.
On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I have to agree with Mark here - it took me a while to
discover the
up-arrow behavior, and I suspect users miss the metadata panel because
of this reversal of default direction.
I understand that it doesn't exactly behave as an incremental scroll
right now, but it's still confusing.
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Quiddity <pandiculation(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 14-06-05 11:17 AM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
So.
When I go to a web page, and I'm browsing it, and I want to read *more
content*, I accomplish this in one of four ways:
* Scroll down with my scroll wheel or trackpad
* Scroll down with page down
* Scroll down with the spacebar
* Scroll down with the down arrow key
All of these work in Media Viewer, except for the last. You have to use
the *up* arrow key to accomplish a scroll-down movement. This makes NO
SENSE.
+1 from me.
Someone on the talk page has complained about
this same thing [0] and
frankly that's enough reason for me to make more noise about it again.
Can we *please* rejoin the entire rest of the web in not screwing with
native browser scrolling controls, and letting people just scroll normally?
Do people actually like the up-arrow control for expanding the metadata
panel? Other comments about scrolling?
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#Can.27t_c…
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