On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I actually don't think changing the video play button would be a good > idea. Its important that users realize the file is a playable video. > Having a prominent play icon is consistent with other sites (e.g. > youtube), although arguably most other sites aren't using the > thumbnail to also illustrate an article. If we were to do something > along these lines, I would think having it be a non-default mode would > be best, where the users could toggle discrete play button mode where > the play button goes into the bottom corner or something. > > I think the ideas in the onwiki thread were more along the lines of: * Putting a control-bar along the bottom of the thumbnail, with video controls, like the audio files have. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:My_Bloody_Valentine_-_Last_Supper.ogg and/or * Place the play-button-overlay somewhere other than the middle-center. Perhaps bottom-center. Or bottom-left with a timeslider, like vimeo uses. https://vimeo.com/104966526 (I understand the lack of time to work on this. Just discussing it further to get the ideas written out somewhere. :)
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