New UI button opacity varies on mouseover

[pnorman]

You can't see my mouse cursor, but it's over zoom out. On mouse over the opacity changes. I suspect this is a bug. If it's intentional, it's really subtle and I'd suggest something stronger like darkening it.

[harry-wood]

Yes it goes from semi-transparent to completely opaque white for the tool you are mousing over. Pretty sure that's the intended effect.

Maybe you have your monitor brightness set different to me, but it doesn't seem really subtle to me (either looking on the website, or in the screenshot you've posted) I mean I can't see why you would "suspect this is a bug".

[gravitystorm]

I think the problem here is that the mouseover effect depends too much on the map behind. For example, it's pretty noticeable if it's over the sea, but not if it's over blank land (screenshots from the transport map)

If the mouseover effect is a useful visual cue (which I think it is) then it needs some thought as to how to make it work irrespective of backgrounds.

http://www.mapbox.com/osmdev/2013/07/19/implementing-osm-vision/ has three screenshots of the new UI, all over water. If it's been developed with mainly water / urban backgrounds, that might explain the hiccup over blank white-ish backgrounds.

[seav]

I would suggest making the mouseover not just be opaque but be a different colour such as the shade of green used in most parts of the website.

[pnorman]

Yes, I viewed it over land initially. I managed to screenshot over trees, but it's extremely subtle on empty areas on the Mapnik style, and even more so on the Transport style. I agree with opaque and shading, although I'd suggest blue instead of green, as blue is the commonly used colour for buttons, accents, etc

[gravitystorm]

It's best if we stick to detailing the problem, rather than suggesting which colour to paint the bikeshed roof!

[harry-wood]

This seems to be FIXED & deployed.

The buttons on the live site are now white on a black background. Still does semi-transparent / opaque on mouseover, but hopefully clearer now even over a light background.

[tomhughes]

Fixed by merge of #351.