[Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

[Zack Exley]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On 03/12/12 20:04, Erik Moeller wrote:
> > Activation on hover (current behavior):
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Lorenzo?banner=B12_5C_120216_SuperCondensed_Hover
>
> If you ignore the banner and scroll down, then later accidentally move
> the cursor over the banner, the article scrolls up to the top, losing
> your place. That could be annoying, especially on long articles.
>
> It happens because the collapsed banner has position: fixed, whereas
> the expanded banner has position: absolute.
>
>
Thanks.

We just were playing around with the hover banners to see what kind of
effect they might have. They're not up now. And probably won't come back.


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