Hi, During the session, someone called it "the side rail".
Pros: It's directionality-agnostic, and can refer both to layout and "side content". Con: It might be too similar to the existing "sidebar", especially after it passes through the localization process. A similar possibility would be "the aside", with the same pros, not the con, and the added consistency with the HTML5 tag. On Friday, August 8, 2014, Jared Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > I think your right about the rail but let's not call it something so > utilitarian as tools. Too boring. Also the content translation rail is > based on the same concept that the design team arrived at a while back. So > it's just a pattern we're all using. > > Sent while mobile > > On Aug 8, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > > Hi, > > This is a follow-up to Brandon's Wikimania talk about Winter. > > Winter has an important concept of "the right rail". I like the "rail" > part of the name, because it's a nice departure from "bar", but the "right" > part is wrong for several reasons: > > 1. It's "left" in Arabic. > > 2. It can be misunderstood as "correct". > > 3. Most importantly, it doesn't say what is the rail for. > > What is it for, really? Data, tools, info, navigation, aids, knowledge, > gallery? I don't have a strongly preferred name myself. "Tools" is pretty > close, but an infobox is not exactly a tool. Other suggestion are welcome. > > I should also mention that we have a pretty similar bar (rail? column?) in > the ContentTranslation extension. It shows information about words, > translations, and tools to control the machine translation. In the Language > team we usually call it the "tools column". > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
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