[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24184: Twenty Thirteen: remove fixed navbar

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#24184: Twenty Thirteen: remove fixed navbar
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 Reporter:  lancewillett   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Bundled Theme  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch      |
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Changes (by taupecat):

 * cc: tracy@… (added)


Comment:

 Adding my $0.02…

 I would vote to remove the fixed nav bar, but I'm probably biased b/c I
 don't like fixed nav bars like this in general.

 The implementations usually work well enough in desktop browsers, as is
 the case here, but in this particular instance it's not adding a ton of
 functionality.  There's no visual or other clues that clicking on the nav
 bar will take you to the top of the page (and that's not enough of an
 ingrained pattern across the web for people to know it automatically).
 Such functionality is just as easily achieved by clicking the "home"
 button on my keyboard.  So ultimately this fixed nav feels like a waste of
 space, albeit not a huge one.  (A huge one would be the one I have to put
 on this project I'm building at work… dear g-d is it a ton of dead pixels!
 But I digress…)

 As for iOS (can't speak to Android, b/c I don't have any Android devices),
 the implementation of fixed nav bars is never as good.  I tested the most
 recent SVN commits on my iPad, and there was a HUGE lag in the time I
 scrolled up past the normal header's visibility and when the fixed nav
 actually appears.  Ditto for scrolling back to the top of the page.  I got
 the same results in iCab Mobile as well, so it's just a reinforcement that
 tablet browsers don't handle fancy CSS/JavaScript tricks like this as well
 as their mouse & keyboard cousins.

 And besides, clicking the clock at the top of the tablet screen takes you
 to the top of the page, and that functionality pattern is slightly more
 widespread than clicking on the nav bar, although to be fair I run across
 lots of people who don't know you can do that in practically every iOS
 app.

 I agree with Nacin in that the fixed nav bar is not the be all & end all
 of Twenty Thirteen.  The color scheme and the enhanced support for post
 formats are really the gems of this release.

 Thanks.

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