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Flash highlighted messages on page load #35

Closed lol768 closed 9 years ago

lol768 commented 9 years ago

à la StackExchange sites (but reversed):

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-is-the-mars-curiosity-rovers-software-built-in/159638#159638

Maybe also a smooth animated scroll down to them?

Zarthus commented 9 years ago

I strongly dislike smooth-animation scrolls (especially if they take too long) and prefer immediate-starts-at (Like how SO does it)

lol768 commented 9 years ago

I strongly dislike smooth-animation scrolls (especially if they take too long)

Yeah, to be fair the smooth scrolling is probably more of a gimmick and/or annoyance than anything useful.

bendem commented 9 years ago

What about message ranges? If the selection fades out, you can't see what was selected after the animation. And just making the selection blink sounds kinda sparkles to me.

Not that I'm against it, just that I don't really see the point of it.

lol768 commented 9 years ago

@bendem said: What about message ranges? If the selection fades out, you can't see what was selected after the animation.

@lol768 said: à la StackExchange sites (but reversed): :stuck_out_tongue:

Fading out after would be silly, yes. Making it 'pulse' or 'flash' (see https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/ for my inspiration) would serve the purpose of making it clear what has been highlighted.

Multiple message ranges are an issue. I can only suggest we apply this animation to the first range we encounter (and only scroll to the centre of the page for that range too).

Not that I'm against it, just that I don't really see the point of it.

This is inspired by an interaction I had yesterday. Users who are less experienced with IRC, reading etc are likely to not realise what's going on unless the message is flashed for them.