Closed Bug 840553 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Change text of "Revert" link in page history to be more descriptive

Categories

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

Product:
developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
All
Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: openjck, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [specification][type:change])

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible. ================================================================================== The revision history page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML$history What problems would this solve? =============================== The purpose of the "Revert" link is not completely clear. Does clicking this link revert (undo) the corresponding revision? Does it revert /to/ the corresponding revision? Who would use this? =================== Site writers/editors. What would users see? ===================== Not entirely sure what the link should look like instead? Maybe the text could be "Revert to this revision", since that appears to be what it does. But other options are possible too. What would users do? What would happen as a result? =================================================== The existing behavior would not change -- a user would click this link to revert /to/ the corresponding revision. Is there anything else we should know? ======================================
No formal design team at the moment. Janet, Sheppy: Any thoughts on the text "Revert to this revision"?
I'd change the link text to "Revert to this version" with the tooltip "Create a new revision of this document which is a clone of this version."
The only change I would make to comment 2 is in the tooltip: > Create a new revision of this document based on this revision. Basically just getting rid of the word "clone". Quoting Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics: > The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts > familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. One could probably argue that we should replace "revision" with "version", but that's a different discussion.
I would argue that the word "clone" is exactly part of the language of our target users though. I also don't like using the word "revision" in two contexts there in that sentence. "Create a revision based on this revision" sounds like something that happens in the Twilight Zone. I much prefer "Create a clone of this version of the document, making the new revision current." But whatever. I don't think this is that big a deal, and am not convinced it's worth the amount of time we've already put into debating it. :)
Signing off on the following: Link text: "Revert to this revision" Tooltip: None Should be enough to clear up any confusions. If not, we can open a bug for adding a tooltip.
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/7ff684b9f22c2d03746f02132153504774611f9b fix bug 840553 - Update revert text https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/5bff298bff2feed899420820c93978a1034331b2 Merge pull request #859 from darkwing/revert-text-840553 fix bug 840553 - Update revert text
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: developer.mozilla.org → developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
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