1249492 - Demarcate page titles in Watch menu boxes

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Design, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

What did you do?
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1. Visited a page on MDN (specifically https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element but it doesn't really matter).
2. Pointed my cursor at the eyeball "Watch" icon.


What happened?
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I observed that the options are not easy to read here because it's hard to tell where the title of the page begins and ends relative to the rest of the text

What should have happened?
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This should be clearer. Perhaps by adding quotes around the title, or by italicizing the title.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Attachment: Example of this minor problem in action; note especially the second option

The attachment shows what this looks like with a longer page title, especially in the case of the second option, in which there is text both before and after the page title. "Subscribe to HTML element reference and all its sub-articles" is hard to read. Where does the page title begin and end? Would you know if you weren't already a long-time MDN user?

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/37d6e8f4cd88e42a43dd4e15668fa9c4834068c8
Fix bug 1249492: Remove article title from watch menu

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/68f9c6c55ac3b0ec7af165a3892f552b7811fb71
Merge pull request #4176 from mozilla/1249492-watch-menu

Fix bug 1249492: Remove article title from watch menu

Comment 3

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

The solution was to drop the page name from the watch menu items.  It's now "Subscribe to this article" and "Subscribe to this article and all its sub-articles". This eliminates the issues with quoting and right-to-left languages.