Re: [libreoffice-website] Back to top link for all pages

Hi Christian, all!

Am Samstag, den 22.01.2011, 02:40 +0100 schrieb Christian Lohmaier:
> Hi Bernhard, *;
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Bernhard Dippold
> <bernhard@familie-dippold.at> wrote:
> > Christoph Noack schrieb:
> > > Am Freitag, den 21.01.2011, 17:36 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Dippold:
> > > > klaus-jürgen weghorn ol schrieb:
> > > > > Am 20.01.2011 01:38, schrieb Christian Lohmaier:
> > > > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:04 AM, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
> > > > > > <ol@sophia-louise.de>  wrote:
> > >
> > > Self-explanation: People will have to read the text to understand the
> > > item (and it needs to be translated?). And, the shape doesn't provide
> > > additional clues (direction).
> >
> > An (additional) arrow would be nice, but I don't know if it really works
> > without any textual explanation.
>
> Added an arrow, but probably it's too small to be helpful...

Yes, it is a bit small, that's true ... but better than nothing :-) I
thought a bit about this issue, and I came to the conclusion that a
triangle might be better - but then it equals most of the scrollbar
icons. Thus, a triangle with a stroke above might be the right approach.
Usually, it is used for cd players, media players, ... to indicate "skip
until <something>". So, this might work - if available.

Something like:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Go-top.svg

> > What do you think of adding the link (not more prominent than at the moment)
> > with an additional upward arrow at the right *upper* corner of the text area
> > - directly below the navbar?
> >
> > PS: Concerning Fitt's law I don't know if we need to make this button more
> > visible and larger. As people know where to click when they want to scroll
> > up (upper arrow besides the website's content area), they will look at this
> > position to place the mouse.
>
> Well - before they can scroll up, they did scroll down, thus the
> cursor is at the bottom area (when using the scrollbar in ther first
> place).
> So I don't really think you can apply Fitt's law in either case.

True, maybe I wasn't that clear - I wasn't specifically referring to its
size, but to its position. Applying them to a corner still does not
solve (for most window sizes) the "a corner can easily be reached via
mouse movement without looking at the screen"-idea.

Therefore I proposed to let it appear more or less in-between the site
content area, and the edge of the browser window. But, it may look
strange, so the showing it in a corner might be rather unobtrusive.

> I now changed it to be at top-right instead of bottom-right, so you
> get a feeling for it.

Cool, thanks!

Cheers,
Christoph


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