User:Sardisson/Content Zoom Scratchpad

Thoughts on labels for Gecko full-content zoom items - Bug 389795

Toolbar Button Labels

Existing Text Labels

• "BigText" = "Bigger Text";
• "SmallText" = "Smaller Text";

Other Applications

• Preview: Zoom
• iPhoto:
• Aperture:

Proposed Content Labels

1. • "BigPage" = "Zoom In";
   • "SmallPage" = "Zoom Out";
2. • "BigPage" = "Bigger Content";
   • "SmallPage" = "Smaller Content";
3. • "BigPage" = "Scale Page Up";
   • "SmallPage" = "Scale Page Down";
4. • "BigPage" = "Scale Content Up";
   • "SmallPage" = "Scale Content Down";

Toolbar Button Tooltips

Existing Text Labels

• "BigTextToolTip" = "Enlarge the text on this page";
• "SmallTextToolTip" = "Shrink the text on this page";

Other Applications

• Preview: "Scale document up", "Scale document down", "Display at actual size"
• iPhoto:
• Aperture:

Proposed Content Labels

1. • "BigPageToolTip" = "Make this page bigger";
   • "SmallPageToolTip" = "Make this page smaller";
2. • "BigPageToolTip" = "Enlarge the content on this page";
   • "SmallPageToolTip" = "Shrink the content on this page";
3. • "BigPageToolTip" = "Make the page content bigger";
   • "SmallPageToolTip" = "Make the page content smaller";
4. • "BigPageToolTip" = "Make the content on this page bigger";
   • "SmallPageToolTip" = "Make the content on this page smaller";

Menu Item Labels

Existing Text Labels

• Make Text Bigger
• Make Text Default
• Make Text Smaller

Other Applications

• Preview: "Zoom In", "Zoom Out", "Actual Size"
• iPhoto:
• Aperture:

Proposed Content Labels

   Show Bookmarks Toolbar

1. • Make Page Bigger
   • Make Page Default
   • Make Page Smaller
2. • Make Content Bigger
   • Make Content Default
   • Make Content Smaller
3. • Make Page Content Bigger
   • Make Page Content Default
   • Make Page Content Smaller

Discussion

From the bug:

Conceptually I have an issue with "Make this page foo", since to me it sounds very much like "Make this window foo"--expanding the physical size of the window/page--whereas we're really making the page content appear larger/smaller. If we want to avoid reusing "zoom" in the tooltip (especially since "zoom" in relation to windows has an entirely different meaning on Mac OS X), perhaps something like "Enlarge the content on this page" or "Make the page content larger" or something. (I'm not really happy with any of those...I'll keep thinking.)

Ditto on the menu items, though there we also have to keep an eye on length of the item name. —Sardisson

Post-bug:

My current preferences are "Scale Content Up" for the button label, "Enlarge the content on this page" (for parity with Text, giving a slight edge over "Make the content on this page bigger") for the tooltip, and "Make Page Content Bigger" for the menu item. —Sardisson