Wednesday January 7, 2009
View more, if only a little
I’m seeing this “View More” link a lot lately. More often than not, the hidden content is no more than a few sentences long. I’m guessing this was implemented in the example above to keep the ads at the bottom of the screen from appearing below the virtual fold in instances when the selection box on the right is wider.
This just a friendly reminder to go back and test the dickens out of even the smallest features. Hiccups like this can easily be avoided.
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Last.fm does this on their artist bios on the Overview page. It appears to be put in place to 1) provide a reasonable chunk of preview text, which could be either just a few lines longer than the preview text or thousands of words long and 2) truncate the text to fit within a prescribed area. But yeah, you’d think that if the whole block of text is only 3-5 lines longer than the preview block someone could script it to ‘show all’ and save us the trouble of clicking.