[ckan-dev] Hidden text is too hidden

Toby Dacre toby.okfn at gmail.com
Tue May 1 12:29:35 UTC 2012


On 1 May 2012 12:37, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> On 1 May 2012 12:28, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
> > There are a couple of problems with 'hidden' text in description
> > fields, such as here:
> >
> > http://thedatahub.org/dataset/patent-nber
> >
> > 1. The hidden text is supposed to be revealed by clicking on an
> > elegant little chevron. But this looks like a bit of decoration; it's
> > easy not to realise there's more information there (and I didn't
> > realise it for some time, even when I was looking for it). It should
> > say something obvious like 'Read more ...'
>
> I strongly agree. I, in fact wonder whether hiding is needed at at
> all. Instead we could just have a high-up link saying "jump to data
> and resources" and having whole description/README. (We could also
> make it (?) so that that the Resources button at top took you to list
> of resources (though that would complicate the dropdown).
>
> Aside: that raises a separate point that we should definitely name (in
> the text) Resources as Data & Resources or similar that makes much
> clearer that Resources include the data.
>
> > 2. The revealing mechanism doesn't work in Google Chrome - at least
> > not this version:
> >
> > 17.0.963.79 (Developer Build 125985 Linux) Built on Ubuntu 11.10,
> > running on LinuxMint 12
>
> I've also noticed some bugginess here.
>
> > The chevron changes shape when clicked on, but nothing else happens. I
> > had to load the page in another browser (Firefox) to see what was
> > going on.
>
> Major UX bug then ... (though I note I've seen that as intermittent in
> browsers and affected, weirdly, by whether debug console was open).
>
>
Something to do with the image catching the event not the button I think .
Whilst fixing this it'd be nice to get it to also work with text size
changes.  I'm not sure why we or explicitly using a height rather than
just  .hide() .show()

Toby

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>
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