Requiring a hoover to see a caption becomes an impediment to non sight readers who rely on various readers. This format is used on sites like Flickr, Pininterest, Google+ etc.. while many user spend there time just scraping these sites do we really need to look them How does an editor decide what image sizes are,
IMHO rather than doing this to <gallery> tag something thats frowned upon in GA, A class and FA processes on en.WP anyway this would be better utilised within the category structure where the more important elements of image size, and name could be displayed with the hover giving you linking options. On 11 June 2013 10:20, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > That's how its currently implemented (with an attribute named mode). How > it all works (Or even if it gets adopted), will depend on the sort of > feedback I get. > > You're 100% right, that this would not work well with the COM:QIC > workflow, and there are many places where the captions are important. But I > would argue there are many places where people just have captions as a > place holder text since there is a spot for a caption (Many [not all] > galleries on commons fit this description). In particular, the captions on > the auto-generated galleries in category listings are pretty useless, and > could easily be replaced with something triggered on hover. > > Even in encyclopedic contexts, a gallery is used as a collection of pretty > pictures, and the caption is a sort of "see also" text to provide further > context for if one of the images catches the reader's eye. > > --bawolff > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 > > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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