Collapse Cut button at end of cut

[hatman]

Title:
Collapse Cut button at end of cut

Area:
reading page, cut tags

Summary:
Little triangle to expand/collapse cuts on your reading page? Awesome? Another one at the bottom to collapse the cut again? Even awesomer.

Description:
So you just finished reading the huge tl;dr cut with the picture in the middle that broke your brain. Now you'd like to close it again, so you can scroll your reading page without pushing past blocks of text (and that hideous flashing animated GIF). Only problem is that to do so, you have to scroll back up (past the text and OMG why did anyone make that picture?! What warped, twisted soul... ARGH!) to the beginning of the cut in order to reach the incredibly spiffy yet totally unassuming little triangle which will save your reading page (and what's left of your sanity).

If only that triangle (whose awesomeness is inversely proportional to its tiny size) had the power to clone itself! Its identical twin, down at the bottom of the cut, silently, unobtrusively, steadfastly, and patiently waiting for the opportunity to serve. To be clicked, to be called to action! To heroically collapse that cut (the GIF, it burns!!), and, in so doing, rejoin the triangle (whose shining, sparkly goodness is inversely proportional to its monochrome... uhm... oh, never mind) at the top which spawned it.

Ah, if only.

Poll #3375 Collapse Cut button at end of cut

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 89

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Should be implemented as-is.
81 (91.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (5.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (3.4%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

new poll response:

[denise]

[ ] Is so awesome that the moderator can't breathe from laughing so hard.

[holyschist]

This is the best dw_suggestion EVER. In terms of style, I mean.

Hehehehe.

[coraa]

Seconded!

[ex_rising236]

Not to mention, just an all-around great suggestion.

[poulpette]

There seems to be some life experience to this *g*

Excellent suggestion, with funny presentation <=> more awesomeness than usual :D

[azurelunatic]

Perhaps even hand-in-hand with a touch of style-defined special styling for the stuff that was under the cut, to make the end easier to find.

[thorfinn]

Need a different icon, definitely not the same triangle.

Some kind of rolly-up-indication icon - ask a graphics/ui person. :-)

I think you could possibly get away with an up-pointing triangle instead of down-pointing. Some usability testing required to see if it's confusing or not.

[jadelennox]

this.

[adalger]

Yes, this. I had already been wishing for this in my head, and that up-pointing triangle is exactly the complementary idiom to the down-pointing triangle at the top we have now.

[kyrielle]

Sadly, I must agree.

Sadly, because a little image reminiscent of the bottom end of a window blind (the kind you pull down and release and it snap-rolls up) would be really, really funny.

But probably, you know, bad UI when taken in conjunction with existing UI.

Alas.

[matgb]

Agreed.

[pseudomonas]

As another idea in passing, when a cut is open, a narrow bar along the left-hand-side could appear that could show the extent of the expanded cut. This visual metaphor is used in Kate, for instance. I agree about putting arrows at the bottom of it as well, though.


Some editors use a 1px line with a little right-angled head instead, this might be less obtrusive and take up less screen.

[thorfinn]

+1, and I think having an up-pointing triangle at the end of the block would probably work.

Triangle points to the right for collapsed, expands to down and up triangles for uncollapsed, I think makes sense.

[holyschist]

+1

[afuna]

Want \o/

[musyc]

*laughing* I'd vote yes on this just for the write-up alone.

[green_knight]

I love your idea almost as much as the fact that we've had this new spiffy feature for around twenty-four hours, and already there are two suggestions in this community on how to make it even better.

Win.

[yvi]

The problem I am seeing is that... then you collapse it again and directly five screens down from where you were because the page got shorter, if you see what I mean.

[hatman]

That could be a problem, yes, the same way large images loading can suddenly push you to the wrong part of the page. But not if the collapse button is programmed to jump you to the anchor at the beginning of the cut. That's how it works in LJ Addons for FireFox.

[yvi]

That is very cool and good indeed! :)

[aveleh]

I had a moment of fear too, and then I remembered that cut-tags already have nice anchors on them :)

[susanreads]

with changes:
* different icon as suggested above
* scroll you back to where you started

I'm wondering what it'll look like, though, when people use very short cuts for spoilers or <cut text="oh, bother"> FUCK </cut>

[adalger]

I think I'm going to put something in the Suggestions queue to make all suggestions go through hatman for the official write-up of the proposal.

[kyrielle]

Like the suggestion.

LOVE the writeup. *gigglefits*