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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
