Rethink movers/trash/ellipsis on mobile #4084
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Mobile Web
Viewport sizes for mobile and tablet devices
Needs Design Feedback
Needs general design feedback.
To the left and right of a selected or hovered block, we have some quick tools. The mover, on the left, lets you move a block up or down. The ellipsis on the right holds more advanced tools, such as a shortcut to settings or editing the HTML of a block.
On mobile, we do not have room to show these on the side of a block, and there's no hover either. Currently in master, we solved this by putting those tools inside an ellipsis menu. But this is inelegant — there are already ellipses elsewhere, and more importantly this ellipsis behaves differently than the one you see on the desktop. That's not a good interface.
Let's consider a different interface for showing these quick-tools on mobile. This is inspired by a concept by @iamthomasbishop (Thank you! 🏅 )
Mockups
When viewing text, you'd see this:
Tapping a block, you'd then pop out the mover, a trash button, and an ellipsis button below the contents of the block itself, same as how a caption field pops out when you select an image:
When you tap the ellipsis in that situation, you could see a modal popover instead of the flyout menu:
☝️ that last part, the modal popover, would be an optional enhancement. The key here is the mover, the trash button, and the ellipsis appear on tapping the block.
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