[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27440: Improvements to Plugin Installer modals

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#27440: Improvements to Plugin Installer modals
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 Reporter:  paulwilde       |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  4.0
Component:  Plugins         |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Comment (by stephdau):

 all scrollable with pinned title:: that was my next thing to play with
 too! :) There have been mentions of also pinning part of the banner
 (previous Google+ style), but I've been noticing that every developer uses
 the banner differently. Some of them having abstract pictures (like
 contact form in the original example), while others reply on the image's
 ratios to lay things out (like BuddyPress, or your own WP Front End Editor
 plugin). So with that in mind, I'm not sure it's worth the loss of actual
 UX real-estate, and would prefer to scroll it out of view once the user
 starts to interact (scrolling) with the modal too.

 backbone: that's the general sentiment. We've also floated around the idea
 of not having a modal, favoring going to a full page instead (the current
 iframe is one, minus the navigation, essentially).

 Sending the user to a diff page could have 2 main advantages:
 * allows the user to open multiple plugins details, in multiple tabs,
 which is a common usage pattern when searching for things (allows for
 comparison, etc).
 * easy to link to from anywhere (eg: installed plugins list could use a
 link to the details too), without having to load JS just in case the user
 wants to, which means a "lighter" page on slower devices.

 Moving to backbone would:
 * make it easy to have next/prev buttons without page reload (based on in-
 page data, until more is needed)
 * bring it in line with what's being done for the media grid, and has
 already been done for the media uploader and themes.

 Thoughts?

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