Interface for showing changes in the history is not very discoverable
It took me quite a while to discover how to see what was changed in an edit.
Some visual clue on how to get it would be a good idea, I think.
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So this is an artifact of me not testing across multiple browsers. In Chrome, the <summary>
element (which the history type, username, and timestamp are contained in) automatically inserts an arrow for you, exactly as luap42 suggested. Looking now in Firefox, it doesn't.
I'll have a look at how possible it is to add an indicator just for Firefox (and any others that don't auto-insert one).
I agree. What about showing an arrow icon before the label and giving it a different cursor on hover (cursor: pointer
)?
This could look something like this:
I used the unicode character "BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE" (▶, ▶
) for this. It might be possible to add some JavaScript toggling it to a "BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE" (▼, ▼
) when expanded.
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