Suggestion to
- move the play button overlay, into the bottom-left corner (bottom-right in RTL wikis)
Context: The current location obscures the center of the thumbnails, which drastically reduces their aesthetic and functional use as still images.
This has led to videos being moved down from the lead-image position (with actual still images, from the videos, as replacements).
It is also often hard to see the play button, because we've purposefully lowered the contrast due to the overlay being in the center. (cf. T50377: Videos' [Play ▶] center triangle: Improve contrast so it's easier to spot that it's not a still image and T117344: Investigate increasing the contrast for arrows in the multimedia video player )
This was discussed at
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28idea_lab%29/Archive_15#Less_intrusive_video_player_icon (October 2014)
- https://www.mail-archive.com/multimedia@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00913.html (October 2014)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive_132#Less_intrusive_video_player_icon (November 2014)
It was then discussed in more technical detail at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.css/Archive_16#Improve_appearance_and_utility_of_embedded_video_player_objects
And enabled at enwiki with this code change (which remains the same, today) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&diff=634568364&oldid=634568266
/* Move 'play' button of video player to bottom left corner */
.PopUpMediaTransform a .play-btn-large {
margin: 0;
top: auto;
right: auto;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
}See also: