{"id":42095,"date":"2024-02-13T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T21:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42095"},"modified":"2024-02-13T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T21:26:22","slug":"split-view-proactive-peek-and-reveal-on-edge-hover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/13\/split-view-proactive-peek-and-reveal-on-edge-hover\/","title":{"rendered":"Split View Proactive Peek and Reveal on Edge Hover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wadetregaskis.com\/proactive-peek-reveal-on-edge-hover\/\">Wade Tregaskis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/wadetregaskis.com\/proactive-peek-reveal-on-edge-hover\/\"><p>It&rsquo;s easy to see how some UI designer thought this was a good idea.  Surely if you move the mouse near the edge of the window (or the screen, in fullscreen mode) and rest it there, it&rsquo;s because you&rsquo;re looking forlornly for your lost sidebar?  What could be more helpful and delightful than your missing sidebar popping into view?!<\/p><p>Unfortunately, they have ignored that fact that there is usually already other GUI controls at the edge of the window, not the least of which being the window edge itself (for drag-resizing of the window).  Scrollbars are another common inhabitant of window edges.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Proactive Peek&rdquo; is the worst of these two because not only does it change what&rsquo;s under the mouse cursor <em>just<\/em> as you&rsquo;re likely to click, stealing the click away from its true target, but it actually shrinks the window&rsquo;s visible contents.  This leads to layout changes and motion noise, particularly in web pages where it can have knock-on effects like mucking with the scroll position or causing major changes by crossing some &ldquo;responsive design&rdquo; threshold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Losing the sidebar is a real problem that people encounter and get stuck on. Maybe it wasn&rsquo;t such a good idea to get rid of all the borders and chrome. Proactive Peek actually is kind of delightful, but there are some issues, as he mentions. For me, it changes the Safari toolbar layout. I also wonder whether it&rsquo;s obvious enough or easy enough to trigger to really help people who are lost.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wade Tregaskis: It&rsquo;s easy to see how some UI designer thought this was a good idea. Surely if you move the mouse near the edge of the window (or the screen, in fullscreen mode) and rest it there, it&rsquo;s because you&rsquo;re looking forlornly for your lost sidebar? What could be more helpful and delightful than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-02-13T21:24:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"b32e71b5-f8b9-47a9-b611-18753363b57b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-02-13T21:26:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Asy5xtfi5R6m2ERh1M2O1ew","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,69,77,649,30,2385,103,226],"class_list":["post-42095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applemail","tag-cocoa","tag-design","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-safari","tag-xcode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42100,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42095\/revisions\/42100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}