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Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by zobzu »

RKearney wrote: post #6

Why was it necessary to bundle the _MACOSX and .DS_Store files with the zip download? I rarely see zip files with thumbs.db or desktop.ini files in them.

its terrible when Windows (ouh ouh EVIL MS) does stuff like that it's normal when Mac OSX does it.

Lets push this further. It's ok when github hijacks your right click (makes the logo download more annoying while pretending to make things nicer). It's terrible if MS/Mozilla/Whoever isn't hype right now does it.

As simple as that. Sadly.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by cj »

run4yourlives wrote: post #17
bradleyjg wrote: post #8

This is a bad idea. It was a bad idea when paranoid sites did it to try and stop people from stealing their images and it is still a bad idea when trying to be helpful. There is a wide variety of behavior accessed through right click beyond save as.

...which moving your mouse away from the logo still allows you to access. Personally, I think it's a great little addition to a website.

Cool feature, but it block the "open link in new tab" menu option.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by Genmutant »

bkbleikamp wrote: post #18
tlrobinson wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't this be handled with multiple stylesheets?

We do it so that when people zoom in on the site (using `⌘ + +` on a Mac) the image doesn't become pixelated and ugly. We do it with most other images, too.

Well this way it's pixelated and ugly by default. I don't think that's better.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by danso »

run4yourlives wrote: post #17
bradleyjg wrote: post #8

This is a bad idea. It was a bad idea when paranoid sites did it to try and stop people from stealing their images and it is still a bad idea when trying to be helpful. There is a wide variety of behavior accessed through right click beyond save as.

...which moving your mouse away from the logo still allows you to access. Personally, I think it's a great little addition to a website.

Yeah. I guess the one thing it could conceivably block is the ability to tell where that specific logo file is being served from...but the niche group of users who need to know that most likely would use inspector-tools to find it.

I was shocked when my roommate told me that in 8 years of owning a Mac (and using a PC from time to time), she had been completely unaware that there was such a thing as a "right-click"

I recently taught some media people how to use the web-inspector...and had to explain what a "right click" was to even show how to get to the inspector's context menu.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by imperialWicket »

cj wrote: post #22
run4yourlives wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...which moving your mouse away from the logo still allows you to access. Personally, I think it's a great little addition to a website.

Cool feature, but it block the "open link in new tab" menu option.

While I agree that designating what a user can accomplish on your page is making UX sacrifices, this is handy:

Ctrl (Cmd) + Left click = open link in new tab

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by Foy »

I couldn't help but notice the actual logo wasn't one of the download options. Although inspecting the element tells us that the original logo is at https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/images/modules/h...

I'm not entirely sure what Github was trying to accomplish with this, other than being a neat trick.

EDIT: https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/images/modules/h... for the non-hover logo. ;)

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by OzzyB »

I know that overriding expected functionality like this is considered a "no-no", but let's not loose sight of the fact that this "UX trick" was used on a logo, on the masthead, on the site's header.

What do you really want if you right-click on a logo like this? If you did indeed want to right-click & save-as to get the image, this feature takes that a step further and actually offers you a selection of high-res images to choose from -- it's adding not subtracting.

Its not like this trick is used unabated and disables functionality completely, like those "don't steal my image bro!" javascripts...

IMO this could even be expanded further, i.e. Link to company's about/contact pages, mission statement etc.

The logo acts as a gateway to the company -- I like it.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by 10098 »

cj wrote: post #22
run4yourlives wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...which moving your mouse away from the logo still allows you to access. Personally, I think it's a great little addition to a website.

Cool feature, but it block the "open link in new tab" menu option.

Clicking with the mouse wheel usually does that
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