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Thumbnail Zoom Plus is a Firefox plug-in which shows a full-size image pop-up when you hover over a thumbnail or image link. When you hover your mouse over a thumbnail or an image or video link, the add-on displays the full-size image or video still-frame in a floating window. Supported sites include Amazon, Bing, Facebook, Flickr, Google, IMDb, LinkedIn, Netflix, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, Yandex.ru, YouTube, Wikipedia, WordPress, Yahoo Images, and many more.
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Small empty popup on facebook (really: better 'too small' indicator) #41

Open quantumlemur opened 12 years ago

quantumlemur commented 12 years ago

When hovering over a profile picture on facebook, an empty window will pop up for a few seconds, then disappear. This seems to happen on every profile picture that is on the old layout, but not the new timeline layout. Other pictures (even on the same page) are handled properly. On 1.61beta1, linux.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3273357/Workspace%201_003.png

dadler commented 12 years ago

That's actually not a bug; it's the intended behavior.

It's showing the "too small" icon, and "100%", telling you that it's not showing a popup since the thumbnail image is already at 100% the size of the full-res image. The two same-size boxes in the indicator's icon are supposed to suggest that the size of the thumb and the popup are the same. The indicator disappears after a second and a half.

The indicator is useful since the user may otherwise keep waiting expecting the popup to appear, or wonder if the site is broken or unsupported in TZP, when in fact it's just that the image is too small to be useful as a popup.

If your Default Zoom (%) is bigger than 100%, it'll actually show a popup which magnifies that image to greater than 100%.

That said, how distracting / annoying do you find this? How do you think I could improve this? Should it disappear faster, not appear at all, include text such as "too small", or be partially transparent?

David

On 2/20/12 4:05 PM, quantumlemur wrote:

When hovering over a profile picture on facebook, an empty window will pop up for a few seconds, then disappear. This seems to happen on every profile picture that is on the old layout, but not the new timeline layout. Other pictures (even on the same page) are handled properly. On 1.61beta1, linux.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3273357/Workspace%201_003.png

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quantumlemur commented 12 years ago

Hmm, that is an interesting problem. I'm not sure what the best way to convey that information, but for me, I know that it wasn't apparent; I would have interpreted it as the image timing out or being unable to load it, if not for the fact that it was consistently on the profile picture (which then made me think it was a bug). While economy and minimalism are always good, I think that if you do want to have a popup notification when an image is already full size, that it might be better to actually write it out ("Already full size" or something) -- it won't take up an enormous amount of space, and if it disappears quickly, hopefully it's not annoying. That is my opinion, at least.

I have some semi-related thoughts on a loading icon which I'll bring up as a feature request, to keep things properly organized, haha.

dadler commented 12 years ago

Yeah, I might add a little text, though then I have to deal with internationalizing it too...

On 2/22/12 4:46 PM, quantumlemur wrote:

Hmm, that is an interesting problem. I'm not sure what the best way to convey that information, but for me, I know that it wasn't apparent; I would have interpreted it as the image timing out or being unable to load it, if not for the fact that it was consistently on the profile picture (which then made me think it was a bug). While economy and minimalism are always good, I think that if you do want to have a popup notification when an image is already full size, that it might be better to actually write it out ("Already full size" or something) -- it won't take up an enormous amount of space, and if it disappears quickly, hopefully it's not annoying. That is my opinion, at least.

I have some semi-related thoughts on a loading icon which I'll bring up as a feature request, to keep things properly organized, haha.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/dadler/thumbnail-zoom/issues/41#issuecomment-4128410