Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: Website
URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: Any observation.
Description of need:
This may be the most minute Feature Request ever submitted:
When I’m about to either Fave an observation or un-Fave it, the mouse-over cursor move on the small star flips the color of the star to the future setting. I find this quite confusing.
Feature request details:
I would like the mouse-over action on the Fave star to act like a tradional radio button, only changing color (green or clear) after the click selection is made. If I haven’t made that choice yet, I don’t want it changing color when I hover the cursor over it.
I’m including two screen captures of the star in its two native settings. I can’t make a screen capture simultaneously when I’m hovering the mouse over the star.
Me too, and thanks for figuring that out! I’d never really understood why sometimes it seemed to activate before I’d clicked the button, and just chalked it up to a glitchy server. I know it’s made me sometimes click on the same thing several times because I wasn’t sure which click was doing what.
I’m not seeing the explicit on/off behavior of any buttons on an observation page. Many of the link buttons are slightly highlighted (grayed or dimmed) with mouse-over, but none display the type of either/or fill that I’m describing as my complaint with the Fave button. For instance, none of the DQA buttons (thumbs up/down) behave like the Fave button. What else are you seeing?
you’re seeing what i’m seeing. i just don’t view the star going green when you mouseover it as confusing. as soon as you mouseout, the star goes back to white. as soon as you click to fave, the text next to the star changes. so i personally don’t see anything that needs to be changed. that’s just my opinion, of course.
I never use this feature, but my first impression is that the behaviour is certainly unconventional, but not especially confusing. I’m not sure that it should behave like a radio-button or check-box, though. I would rather expect it to be more like the Like buttons on this forum, which have different mouseover highlighting depending on whether they’ve already been activated by the current user or not.
Maybe I’m the only one confused by that star behavior! So it may not get many votes in favor, but I’ll leave it active for awhile longer. Maybe I can rouse some interest in the request by enlisting my secret army of senior citizens on iNat. ;-)
