I just tested the new environment with multimedia files - not a good match:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Featured_pictures/Non-photographic_media#Video_and_audio
.

Daniel

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:02 AM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> So I've tweaked the demo a little bit in response to feedback:
> *If you're on a touchscreen, it will always show the caption instead
> of hover. Screen readers should also always see the caption, and if an
> image receives focus, its caption becomes visible.
> **Nonetheless, hover seems to be a sticking point, so I have a bunch
> of non-hover variations at
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Main_Page
> (May have to scroll)
> *Javascript now justifies the images. (The page is loaded with 1.5x
> the normal resolution images, and the <img> tag is manipulated to try
> and fill everything up, up to a maximum of 1.5x the original size. The
> last row is left as is, since its often a single image [Although as I
> write this, I think it should be manipulated too, might as well make
> it 1.5x]). As an aside, I found out that if I do text-align: justify,
> the browser will adjust the whitespace between images to justify it.
> However I think it looks better with the last row centred and
> typically adjusting the image size is enough; the whitespace doesn't
> have to be touched.
> **If you resize the browser window, js doesn't re-adjust stuff
> currently, so ragged edges re-appear. I suppose it could. Would make
> things a bit more complex
>
>> 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?
>
> There was a thread a while back on the commons village pump which I
> thought was an interesting idea, where some users wanted a magic word
> that would enable a gallery view for subcategories, where each
> subcategory has a representative image specified via some means (I
> imagine parser func on subcategory page), or if unspecified defaults
> to the first entry in the subcategory.
>
> Thanks everyone for the feedback :D
>
> --bawolff
>
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