303509 - Relocating feedview article length slider to main title block

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[IU]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050804 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050804 Firefox/1.0+

Would it be possible to relocate the feedview article length slider to the main
title header (right-hand side) in order to reclaim the 3 inches of page margin
lost due to the slider being in the body?


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ben Basson]

Personally I'd ditch it altogether and display the full article, unless there
are more than a handful of real cases where it's useful.

Comment 2

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Personally I'd ditch it altogether and display the full article, unless there
> are more than a handful of real cases where it's useful.

I agree; I think it was only included in the first place to imitate Safari.

Comment 3

[Erik Arvidsson]

I think there are scenarios where one might want the entry title only, the
summary or the complete content. Having a slider to decide how much to show of
the content has hardly any real value.

If there is going to be a tool box then it makes to have either a combo box for
these 3 or make the slider only have 3 values.

Comment 4

[Percy Cabello]

Limiting the article length to 3 possible values (title/summary/full article)
seems good. I think adding descriptive text to the slider is necessary for
clarity. Not sure if this is the current version
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=191839) of feedview but if it is
it seems like screen state is not an issue right now in the right panel. Or it
could be a simple combo box.

What about feeds with no explicit RSS/Atom summary? Could "summary" mean then
the first N characters (where N is a non-UI preference)?

Comment 5

[Erik Arvidsson]

A combo box might make more sense but a slider has the wow-factor which should
not be underestimated. If a slider is used we should at least provide a godd
tool tip for it.

My idea was that if no summary is present then create a plain text summary of
the complete text/html content and limit it to some words/lines.

Comment 6

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

The slider's been removed so this is now INVALID (unless it's WONTFIX - someone
correct me if I'm wrong).