- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:37:49 -0700
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Sep 19, 2012, at 4:11 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, exactly what I meant. But I don't think it's going to work, in > particular in Desktop browsers. Was just a random idea for touch > devises. OK, one detail that was missing is that it's for touch devices and the expected way to activate it is a flick gesture. Unfortunately, flicks/swipes already have a defined meaning in most mobile and tablet browsers, namely, panning the page. We likely cannot overload this gesture for images, because panning/scrolling is a critical operation. And many pages consist largely of images, so users cannot be expected to carefully avoid them when panning. I hope this illustrates the distance between a brainstorming-level idea and a description with enough detail to guide implementation. Regards, Maciej > > Cheers, > Silvia. > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Laura Carlson > <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Maciej, >> >> Yes, I agree that the technique would need to be explained and >> illustrated. I imagine that a UI could have a flip transition: akin to >> flipping over a hard-copy physical photograph to read what is written >> on the back. It that what you meant Silvia? That is what I envisioned. >> It could be cool. >> >> Best Regards, >> Laura >> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 18, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Maciej, >>>> >>>> In another thread you said: >>>> >>>>> The "turn the image around" idea is handwavey to the point of uselessness. >>>> >>>> Could you explain what you mean by "handwavey"? And why you believe it >>>> would be useless? I really liked Silvia's new UI idea. >>> >>> Quoting: "It could also be... listed "on the back of the image" e.g. if the UI allowed to "turn it around"" >>> >>> Speaking with my implementor hat on: >>> >>> This lacks sufficient detail as written to actually implement anything. I don't know what "the back of the image" means, or what specifically you would do to "turn it around". This is handwaving, not a description of an actual implementable UI. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Maciej >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Laura L. Carlson >
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