Main menu only displays if you maximize browser
I opened Family Search. All I wanted to do was get to my tree. I got hit with everything on the home page except the ability to access my tree.
I maximized the browser and "Voila!" But doing research work so that I can't check things in other windows without Alt TAB, is very difficult.
I've attached the two screen shots. If this isn't happening on your computer, I'm using one of those new wide-screen 360-degree laptops which sometimes get perceived as tablets. I've seen things like this before. We may need to look at designing for both resolution laptop screens.
Comments
-
This characteristic of the home page to have the menu collapse has been present for a long time. With both the old and the new home page, as long as your window is wide enough to show both columns you get the main menu written out:
As you narrow the window farther, shortly after you have the display change from two columns to one, the menu collapses to a menu icon:
That you have to click to open the drop down version of the homepage:
The old version did exactly the same thing. Here is the point the switch occurs in the old one:
Although I can't say for sure if the point at which this occurs has been adjusted or not even for the old version.
0 -
Here is a close up view of the menu bar just before it collapses. The line has already changed before this in that the FamilySearch logo has shifted all the way to the left margin and the users account name has vanished:
As you can see, making the window any narrower does not leave enough room for the menu to be written out so something has to happen. Either the items have to get squashed together, the font size has to shrink, or the words all have to change to icons. The designers must have decided that the drop down menu was the best way to handle this. Having the words squashed together would make them harder to read as would reducing the font size. And I don't think having a row of thirteen icons would be very popular.
1