https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66116
Bug ID: 66116
Summary: Closing MMV should restore history state to where it
was when opened
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: MultimediaViewer
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: hartman.w...@gmail.com
CC: aarcos.w...@gmail.com, fflo...@wikimedia.org,
gti...@wikimedia.org, mtrac...@member.fsf.org
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
I agree with the feedback quoted below. If I'm navigating, I'm expecting that
my history 'pops' back to where it was when I entered the viewer, as this is an
application inside the current discreet page. Now each separate view is acting
as a discreet page, which is just a little bit too much.
I classify this as a bug, because it is messing with my expectations of using a
website.
To quote from the feedback page:
Media Viewer functions as a discreet page making navigation awkward[edit
source]
First, I'll be blunt: I don't care for this new media viewer and I don't see
what purpose it serves on an encyclopedia. I use Wikipedia for a fair amount of
image research for personal projects, as it's a great way to find things in the
commons. As such I often click on images, read their description pages, and
figure out if I can use them or not before continuing my research. Not only is
the information that was readily available just last week now buried in the
fine print, but the "application" apparently functions as a separate page, even
though it in no means looks like one. If you close the "application", as you
would visually similar applications on popular social and photo-sharing
websites, and later hit the back button the navigate to your original search,
you find that it takes you to the media viewer. If you've viewed and closed
multiple images on a page this can lead to an unnecessarily large amount of
clicking to navigate back to a page you thought was immediately previous to the
one present.
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