https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40307
--- Comment #7 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> 2012-09-18 04:09:00 UTC --- > I think using auto-hide for these kinds of notifications makes for poor site > accessibility. There's a lot of text and it's difficult to read it all > quickly. > The current message displays for five seconds and contains the following text: > > --- > The page "Main Page" has been added to your [watchlist]. Future changes to > this > page and its associated talk page will be listed there, and the page will > appear bolded in the [list of recent changes] to make it easier to pick out. > --- > > Imagine that a new user, just having registered an account, clicks the star > icon. He or she is expected to read (and understand) all of this in five > seconds before the message disappears? Plus there are two links in there. But > pretty soon the message has disappeared; who knows, you may have been reading > another window or tab (bug 40322). This is kind of nasty behavior, in my > opinion. > > I think the hover trick (where putting your cursor over a message will cause > the message to not auto-hide) is non-obvious. Admittedly Microsoft Outlook > does > something similar with e-mail inbox message previews. > > And not everybody has a hover state these days. Are cursor-less users just > expected to read everything very quickly? > > Maybe it makes sense to not auto-hide for new users only. Or maybe auto-hide > isn't as evil as it seems. I think this needs more thought. I don't think we should necessarily optimize for so much text. I think you can basically cut it all down to "The page "Main Page" has been added to your [watchlist]." as long as you have the link. I think auto-hide is just courtesy for certain kinds of messages, especially confirmation messages. You see this pattern all over. For other kinds of notification, such as things where a response is expected of you and/or it does not cover elements of the page, it's not. I think the hover state is a good idea. Placing a cursor on an element and/or clicking it is obviously indicative of "grabbing" it, and as such is expected behavior. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
