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Prevent revision tooltip from jumping when hovering over the bars
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Description

User Story: I want to get a quick overview of revisions and their data, e.g. to spot edits of a certain user.

Current State: The popup is preferably centered relative to the revision's bar in the revision slider diagram.

Problem: The position of the left edge (vice versa for RTL-languages) is depended on two things, the position of the bar (this is predictable) and the content of the popup (not predictable for the user). This makes it hard to scane since the position to start reading may jump significant distances.

Suggestion: Prefer a constant position of the left edge of the popup relative to the bar.

Background: The RevisionSlider is a feature to fulfill one of the top wishes of the German Community wishlist[1]. It is inspired by DerHexer's revisionjumper gadget. The revision slider allows people to see edit summaries and navigate through revisions from the diff page.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes , https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Revision_Slider , https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/RevisionSlider#Context

Discussion: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_2015/Artikel#Anzeige_aller_Bearbeitungskommentare_im_Diff

Event Timeline

Lea_WMDE renamed this task from Revision Popup behaviour to Prevent revision tooltip from jumping when hovering over the bars.Aug 10 2016, 3:41 PM

Just wondering, what is the state of this in your opinion @Jan_Dittrich as since this ticket was created we are now using different tooltips!

@Addshore Thanks for thinking of that!
I checked, it works fine as it currently does, it is still easy to scan.

@Jan_Dittrich so, from your side this can be closed as resolved?

Jan_Dittrich claimed this task.

Yes. To prevent any boredom after closing this, I already created T145726 :-)