[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21273: Automatically open help panel
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Tue Oct 30 17:32:37 UTC 2012
#21273: Automatically open help panel
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Reporter: ptahdunbar | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Future Release
Component: Help/About | Version:
Severity: trivial | Resolution:
Keywords: has-patch |
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Comment (by helenyhou):
Talked to ptahdunbar in person about this, and some thoughts:
* #21583 isn't happening for 3.5, and has a lot of accompanying issues
(click to open/sticky open state vs. the current toolbar interaction).
Since that was the cause for punting this, it's good to make a note here.
* Aforesaid ticket would actually have been extremely helpful for
implementing this, in that the panel would be fixed to the toolbar/top and
thus would not cause the user to be scrolled back to the top and likely
losing their place when clicking that link.
* I still hesitate when it comes to the issue of intent and adding the
hash. I can see why you would want to link to a different page *and* open
the panel, but I think this would actually be a much more successful
interaction if it were to stay on the page. When directing to another
page, there are actually still multiple areas of text viewable and thus it
is not necessarily as clear what the user is meant to read based on what
was clicked before. In any case, I think starting with just the on-page
case first would be easier to really evaluate - can always expand usage
from there.
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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21273#comment:13>
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