On 6/5/14, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mark is making the case that we're fighting expectations set by pretty >> much >> > the rest of the web, and that we may need to make more of a change than >> > providing a more prominent hint. >> > > I think we need a more prominent hint either way, and even more so if we > change existing behavior. The lack of that hint is the bigger problem; what > behavior we assign to up/down is the smaller one. > (Also, we are not talking about normal scrolling behavior either way, are > we? We are animating the panel on up/down, and we are talking about keeping > that animation, but reversing the directions. Not animating at all would > certainly be more consistent with the wider web, but also somewhat > inconvenient IMO, as there is little practical use in opening the panel > partially, and standard up/down key behavior is slow. I agree with Fabrice > here: if we want to change directions, we should reconsider the whole > metaphor. E.g. the chevron initially pointing up and then changing > direction doesn't really make sense in a scrolling model.) >
FWIW, my mental model would be to press a down arrow. If there's a metaphor here suggesting an up arrow, its not coming across to me. But I may also just be old (young?) and cranky. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
