I caught this one on Twitter (and promptly forgot to blog about it in the 3.3 support craze).
Thibaut Ninove, a Web & UI designer from Belgium, talks about pixels, web, design, standards and other topics on his blog, Dots & Thoughts. He’s got a good one I know I’ve groused about before. Why not put the ‘add media’ icon on the post edit bar?
It’s there if you go into the fullscreen view after all:
So clearly the hard work with the graphic is already done, and this would just be a case of moving it down a bit. The only reason I can think of to leave it one-out is that, pre 3.3, there were multiple buttons depending on the type of media, and that would have been kludgy. Now that the uploader is ‘fixed’ (it’s my favorite thing about 3.3), maybe 3.4 should move that in?
Credit: My 2 cents about the WordPress 3.3 post editor | Dots & Thoughts.
3 responses to “Speaking of Redesign Thoughts…”
I think leaving it where it is for 3.3 was a good idea. It actually cuts down on the “where did my upload button go?” questions … and since people are already panicked that their multiple buttons coalesced into one, these are good questions to avoid.
That said, there’s just about 0 reason not to implement things this way for 3.4. I look forward to seeing a patch sometime soon.
Oh yeah, having this in 3.3 would have been a recipe for disaster. But 3.4? This looks … right.
Oooh, see Jane’s post here on the matter.