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The challenge with making modals appear above if there's not room below is that they might then cover important content. If this happened to the Flag modal, for example, it might cover most of the...
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#3: Post edited
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Monica Cellio
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2024-09-10T15:45:23Z (3 months ago)
- The challenge with making modals appear above if there's not room below is that they might then cover important content. If this happened to the Flag modal, for example, it might cover most of the post, which might make writing a custom flag harder. I think we probably want at least the post modals to all behave the same way; it would be confusing if Copy Link did one thing and Flag or Close did another.
- Taking all of that into account, what is the best behavior? I don't know if it's possible in Ruby (or HTML for that matter), but one possibility that occurs to me is to leave the page content as it is but *scroll the page a little* so you see that there's a modal there. Would that help or would that be jarring? If that's a bad idea (or not possible), what else would work from a usability perspective?
- From a suggestion in comments: maybe we could move the modal to the side so its presence is still clear -- probably doesn't work for flags on a phone (too wide), but seems like it would work for Copy Link:
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- The challenge with making modals appear above if there's not room below is that they might then cover important content. If this happened to the Flag modal, for example, it might cover most of the post, which might make writing a custom flag harder. I think we probably want at least the post modals to all behave the same way; it would be confusing if Copy Link did one thing and Flag or Close did another.
- Taking all of that into account, what is the best behavior? I don't know if it's possible in Ruby (or HTML for that matter), but one possibility that occurs to me is to leave the page content as it is but *scroll the page a little* so you see that there's a modal there. Would that help or would that be jarring? If that's a bad idea (or not possible), what else would work from a usability perspective?
- From a suggestion in comments: maybe we could move the modal to the side so its presence is still clear -- probably doesn't work for flags on a phone (too wide), but seems like it would work for Copy Link:
- > 
- (Personally, I think I still prefer scrolling the page a little, as it would work with all modals, but I don't know how hard that is.)
#2: Post edited
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Monica Cellio
·
2024-09-10T15:42:11Z (3 months ago)
- The challenge with making modals appear above if there's not room below is that they might then cover important content. If this happened to the Flag modal, for example, it might cover most of the post, which might make writing a custom flag harder. I think we probably want at least the post modals to all behave the same way; it would be confusing if Copy Link did one thing and Flag or Close did another.
Taking all of that into account, what is the best behavior? I don't know if it's possible in Ruby (or HTML for that matter), but one possibility that occurs to me is to leave the page content as it is but *scroll the page a little* so you see that there's a modal there. Would that help or would that be jarring? If that's a bad idea (or not possible), what else would work from a usability perspective?
- The challenge with making modals appear above if there's not room below is that they might then cover important content. If this happened to the Flag modal, for example, it might cover most of the post, which might make writing a custom flag harder. I think we probably want at least the post modals to all behave the same way; it would be confusing if Copy Link did one thing and Flag or Close did another.
- Taking all of that into account, what is the best behavior? I don't know if it's possible in Ruby (or HTML for that matter), but one possibility that occurs to me is to leave the page content as it is but *scroll the page a little* so you see that there's a modal there. Would that help or would that be jarring? If that's a bad idea (or not possible), what else would work from a usability perspective?
- From a suggestion in comments: maybe we could move the modal to the side so its presence is still clear -- probably doesn't work for flags on a phone (too wide), but seems like it would work for Copy Link:
- > 
#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
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2024-09-10T02:37:48Z (3 months ago)
The challenge with making modals appear above if there's not room below is that they might then cover important content. If this happened to the Flag modal, for example, it might cover most of the post, which might make writing a custom flag harder. I think we probably want at least the post modals to all behave the same way; it would be confusing if Copy Link did one thing and Flag or Close did another. Taking all of that into account, what is the best behavior? I don't know if it's possible in Ruby (or HTML for that matter), but one possibility that occurs to me is to leave the page content as it is but *scroll the page a little* so you see that there's a modal there. Would that help or would that be jarring? If that's a bad idea (or not possible), what else would work from a usability perspective?