On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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). > I like the overall look, couple notes: * Think about tablet and mobile views -- galleries are even awfuller on mobile right now than on desktop. This means a) consider touchscreens and b) consider small screens. * I'm not sold on "show title on hover". Touchscreens don't do hover... * Ragged edges can be fixed by adjusting spacing or aspect ratio a little, like justifying text. This would look awesome. :) * We need to fix what happens when clicking the items -- should get a nice zoomed lightbox or something. This should be shared with non-gallery media however, so can be outside this present scope. Another related thing to consider is Category page gallery displays... having a gallery-style display for contained media is relatively easy, but how can we show subcategories nicely? What about non-visual media? Can we display them better than we do now? -- brion
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