[dokuwiki] Re: My christmas present for the DokuWiki community
- From: Esther Brunner <wikidesign@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:17:58 +0100
Hi Chris
One piece of feedback, for your small-screen mobile device version.
Some mobile devices use double tap to zoom (e.g. iphone/ipod touch),
where they will zoom to the width of the element where the double
tap occurred. Its really handy to have an obvious space where you
can do that double tap. Conversely elements which are all clickable
links are annoying as there is nowhere you can double tap. That's
menus on some websites and in DokuWiki its the TOC. Any chance you
could add double tap areas, for the TOC in particular, for the other
columns possibly. Maybe a solid colour bar with a little magnifier
icon - all background so you don't end up zooming to a different
element.
Very good point, thanks Chris! I was aware of this problem with the
navigation menu (that's way there is plenty of white space above and
below the sidebar menu), but forgot about the TOC.
I'm not sure though whether a magnifier icon is appropriate. Some
users might mistake it for search or a link to a detail view. I think
it should be more a subtle, but recognizable structure - like embossed
dots or stripes indicate dragable areas. - I don't know whether a best
practice how to indicate double tap areas is already established. I'll
do some research.
At least for the portrait view of iPhone OS and any mobile device
screen with a width lower than 300px I would like to offer a
linearisized version of the site. Luckily, in DokuWiki the content of
the page is in a single column. The main difference is that navigation
is below the content, because you are primarily interested in page
content and only after reading it (or finding out it was not what you
were looking for) you need the navigation to go elsewhere. In this
version no double tap areas are necessary.
-- Esther
--
DokuWiki mailing list - more info at
http://www.dokuwiki.org/mailinglist
Other related posts:
