[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17503: Make DFW mouse movement behavior consistent

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#17503: Make DFW mouse movement behavior consistent
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 Reporter:  nacin         |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  3.2
Component:  Editor        |    Version:  3.2
 Severity:  major         |   Keywords:
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 In HTML mode:
  - On any mouse movement, DFW fades in.
  - This can be jumpy and distracting.

 In visual mode:
  - On any mouse movement outside of the content area, DFW fades in.
  - When you have content and are scrolled down (thus content area is 100%
 height), you need to do a jig with your mouse, outside of the content area
 then back over to hit one of the buttons.

 We need to come up with a middle ground on these behaviors. Both of them
 are largely untenable, and the inconsistency is also a poor experience.

 It will not be easy to change the visual mode behavior since we're in an
 iframe there, but azaozz says there's a way.

 I'm thinking we only fade it in when the mouse movements are near the top
 of the document -- I'd suggest perhaps 1.5 times the height of the header,
 in a manner so it's faded in by the time you get to one of the buttons.

 This is better than we have now in the HTML editor -- it'd still fade in
 at occasionally undesired times, but most of the time it would be desired.
 If you're working in a document that is scrolled down, chances are you're
 working in the bottom 50% of the window anyway.

 And it would be better than we have now in the visual editor -- it'd
 actually fade in when you want it, because right now it feels very
 unnatural.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17503>
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