https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22987
Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #7 from Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> 2010-04-21 20:50:23 UTC --- The benefit of taking items that would be tabs and tucking them into a menu which is visible on hover (not click as has been misrepresented here) is that it reduces clutter. The purpose for reducing clutter is to allow for isolation of the most important items to occur. This is the same reason we separated the tabs - it provides more space around the Read/Edit/History tabs making them more visible. We've seen noticable improvements of users' ability to locate the Edit tab over Monobook already, and we are looking for ways to make the edit tab more visible, not less - which expansion of the drop-down menu out to full tabs would certainly do. It should be noted that the software we've written detects the "collapsible" class on list items which are in the tab or menu lists and automatically collapses and expands them when there's enough room for them. We mark the history tab collapsible by default because it's a less used view than read and edit, but bringing items like move and protect up is specifically undesirable, as it's adding clutter to the tabs, reducing the relative visibility of any one tab - a.k.a dilution. If you have a table with only 3 items on it, you can nearly instantly identify any one of them, the more items you add the longer it will take. Additionally, reducing the number of tabs across the top of the page serves to reduce the minimum screen width required to properly render the skin. Because we have a dynamic-width site, people often see lots of space between the left and right tab sets and think it's a waste of space, not taking into consideration the experience that users with netbooks or older machines will encounter. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
