Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#1

Post by vincentchan » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:34 PM UTC

Not sure if this is something new but I really think this feature is very thoughtful. Great UX. I hope every site will do the same thing.

Try right clicking GitHub's logo
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Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#2

Post by hornbaker » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:43 PM UTC

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that delightful bit of UX was Kyle Neath's idea and execution.

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#3

Post by famousactress » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:46 PM UTC

I find it kind of disarming to overload not-typically-overloaded events like this though. I wonder if it'd be possible to let the right-click menu appear as normal, but background a div that pops up and give you the option of downloading the nicer logo files?

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#4

Post by helipad » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:49 PM UTC

I've seen this done a few times before.

Akismet is one example: http://littlebigdetails.com/post/6493183632/akismet-when-you...

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#5

Post by vincentchan » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:59 PM UTC

hornbaker wrote: post #2

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that delightful bit of UX was Kyle Neath's idea and execution.

I think every site should implement this great UX. So thoughtful.

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#6

Post by RKearney » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:59 PM UTC

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.

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#7

Post by jjcm » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

Please let this become the norm. This is fantastic.

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#8

Post by bradleyjg » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 6:04 PM UTC

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.

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#9

Post by guelo » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 6:05 PM UTC

The actual logo that is being displayed looks like it is suffering from being shrunk down too much from a bigger image.

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#10

Post by bonzoesc » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 6:08 PM UTC

guelo wrote: post #9

The actual logo that is being displayed looks like it is suffering from being shrunk down too much from a bigger image.

It is. In a presentation at Superconf, one of the Github designers (whose name escapes me) said that they serve some images at high resolution and resize in the HTML tags for the benefit of iPhones 4 and other high-dpi devices.