Last modified: 2014-09-20 21:25:26 UTC
MediaViewer provides a bunch of boilerplate texts in its share/download/embed panels. It is currently impossible to read this texts without copying them into another application (such as a text editor): the textboxes are very small and only show the first few characters, and they get automatically refocused and keypresses are captured by other handlers and used for global behavior (such as prev/next), so really to only way to scroll the text is having a touchpad. This is annoying for the experienced user, and makes it harder for the inexperienced one to understand the purpose of the text. While most of these design decisions were taken in order to maximize the ease of copying the text, and that is a worthwhile goal, there should be a way to just read the text. Maybe the textbox could expand when selected...
Oops, cat on the keyboard.
(In reply to Tisza Gergő from comment #0) > MediaViewer provides a bunch of boilerplate texts in its > share/download/embed panels. It is currently impossible to read this texts > without copying them into another application (such as a text editor): the > textboxes are very small and only show the first few characters, and they > get automatically refocused and keypresses are captured by other handlers > and used for global behavior (such as prev/next), so really to only way to > scroll the text is having a touchpad. This is annoying for the experienced > user, and makes it harder for the inexperienced one to understand the > purpose of the text. Agreed. > While most of these design decisions were taken in order to maximize the > ease of copying the text, and that is a worthwhile goal, there should be a > way to just read the text. Maybe the textbox could expand when selected... I think the virtue of these supplemental features (e.g., trying to force all of the text in the text area to be highlighted) is pretty dubious. Is there a credible indication that users are incapable of, or have difficulty with, copying text from a text area themselves? Is extra assistance really needed here?
