If this should find its way into core, it should be made optional (using an attribute of <gallery>)! Please be aware that this would instantly destroy gallery applications like COM:QIC. Also from a usability standpoint hiding the captions is probably not always a good thing. Especially in the context of an encyclopedia rather than a "pretty picture" site (like flickr). Daniel
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:36 PM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > [Cross posting to commons-l and design list] > > Hi all, > > Over the last couple days, I've been looking at making our <gallery> tag a > lot more slick. Compared to other websites, our galleries look very "boxy" > imo. This isn't that bad when it comes to icon/clip art type media, but for > photos I feel we could really do better. So I've tried to make the galleries > be more compact, with rows of images all the same height but different > width, and the caption visible on hover. The only downside to this is the > borders of the gallery become a little ragged, which mostly looks fine to me > (Possibly could be dealt with with js. Would involve a bit of double loading > the images though). > > A demo speaks louder than words, hence: > > * > http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Featured_pictures/Non-photographic_media > (contrast with > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Non-photographic_media > ) > * > http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Featured_pictures/Animals/Fish > (contrast with > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Fish ) > * http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Main_Page > > Additionally the wiki is open to editor (You need to register an account > first), so please don't hesitate to experiment. > > Anyhow, this is all still a work in progress, and I would really appreciate > your feedback/criticism/hate mail/love letters/etc. > -- > Thanks, > Bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
