Hi James,
I just tried this code out now, and I regret not having looked at it
before. I'm really not sure about that hover thing - as Jeroen notes, it
has usabiility issues, and beyond that, it just seems like too much work to
makes users do. It would be one thing if the hover were just clarifying
what was already on the page, but in this case the parameter names by
themselves are pretty cryptic - and they're always in English, so if people
don't speak English then they're forced to hover over every parameter.
Was the issue that the parameter descriptions were taking up too much of
the page? If so, one possibility is just to display them in a smaller font
instead - that might help readability as well (ironically), since it
wouldn't look as much like a sea of text.
-Yaron
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey James,
>
> I just merged in your changes, and they are looking great :)
>
> One usability suggestion I have is adding a line of text at the top of the
> "other options" box explaining what they are, in particular that you can
> cover over their names to get their associated description (as this might
> not be obvious).
>
> And this only occurred to me now, but the WMF has a usability policy
> discouraging use of hover-only features, as they do not work on most mobile
> devices. Not sure how to address this issue here though.
>
>
> Cheers
>
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