Great suggestions Joanna. I assume we don't have those two options mocked up in designs. Joanna, let's touch base tomorrow about next steps.
Jess On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:22 PM, "Vass, Joanna" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Heidi, > > One solution we were talking about earlier is removing the caption and > transcript buttons with small videos and large controls and changing the > tooltip on the fullscreen button to say 'more options available on > fullscreen'. > > The reason is that the video area may be too small to comfortably display > captions and transcripts anyway. They could though be displayed outside of > the video, but the placement may vary depending on the context the video is > in. > > Another option is moving the left half of the controls to a new bar on top of > the video, giving them a bit more room. > > I'm not sure which would be ideal though. > > joanna > > On 2012-11-12, at 1:48 PM, "Valles, Heidi" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi Jess and all, >> >> We're looking for a design solution to address when video player controls >> are made big via UI Options. When the video is small and text-size is set to >> be biggest, the controls no longer fit across one line, but split into two >> lines (see attached screen shot #1). >> >> Also, when line-height is increased, the controls, volume slider, and time >> information are offset within their containers (see screen shot #2). >> >> There are a few things we could do: >> >> -Implement a default video size that would support our one-line control >> layout, and therefore always look good "out of the box", regardless of the >> media's actual size. Might affect resolution/expectations, but could be >> over-ridden by integrators - if they force it to be too small, then they're >> responsible for styling it properly. >> >> -Tweak the current styles to look better when the video is small and >> controls are large ("look better" possibly meaning the control background >> would extend to include the multiple lines of controls, tweak tooltip >> position, prevent line-spacing from affecting controls?) >> >> -Prevent the control bar from wrapping, meaning it would possibly extend >> outside the width of the video player. >> >> -Something else? >> >> Thoughts welcome! >> >> best, >> heidi >> >> <screen shot 1.png><screen shot 2.png> >> _______________________________________________________ >> fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, >> see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work > > _______________________________________________________ > fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, > see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
