SG (WMF)

About the table of contents

Congrats for the tweaks you made to the Topics floating table of contents to the right of the new design. The progress bar is a nice touch, and I specially like that you have fixed its problems I had on mobile browsers - it no longer shows up in Firefox mobile nor Dolphin, so it doesn't interfere with content.

I'd want to ask you to add an "x" close button to the top right. Every floating panel on the web should have one, for the danger these panels pose for overlapping content under a variety of settings, custom CSSs, window sizes, zoom levels and font size preferences that users may have; total control of the layout of pages is a pipe dream.

I've managed to make the TOC slightly totally overlap the content in this page despite the responsive design, so I figure it still there's potential certainty for it to hinder readability of the page for some users under unpredictable circumstances. A simple "close" button allowing the user to dismiss the panel whenever it's inconvenient would solve any potential problem; I make this suggestion after being frustrated all over the web for this problems, as the "uncloseable floating sidebar getting in the way of content" is becoming a far too common idiom on modern designs. Diego (talk) 11:07, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

P.S. Oh, now that we're at it - could you convince the designers to right align the control bar below each post (Reply/Edit/Posted/Updated), so that the "Reply" button doesn't get in the way of reading? I'd be forever grateful for that. (Though I suppose this should be mirrored in right-to-left languages, isn't it?) Diego (talk) 11:18, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for my delay in responding. The TOC is still in flux; it didn't have a design at that point, and was merely a mockup of how I intended it to function -- not look. We'll have a better version in the coming weeks. As for aligning action items to the right, that's something that has been requested and will be tested. ♠ SG →Talk 22:49, 3 April 2014 (UTC)