Recommendation for feature change.
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Hello
In a coming version, I absolutely recommend put a tiny “open menu” dropdown arrow next to every setting that can actually be changed via a dropdown.
At the moment, all the settings with selectable denominations such as px, em or % don’t have dropdown arrows and it is not immediately obvious to the user that these can be changed.
I just spent most of yesterday redoing my sliders after the update, and cursing the reduced responsiveness of the new version. I only found the dropdown selection this morning after miss-clicking.
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While PX does give the most consistent and easy to understand results, I can’t agree that this makes it the “best” option. PX, EM, and % each produce different results and each has it’s uses depending on how the user wants their slider to respond to various screen resolutions.
For example, my own slider used to beautifully resize all elements to maintain the exact same layout and positioning across all resolutions on PC and tablet, most likely through using absolute layers as you mentioned. This result could also have been achieved through the use of % or EM settings, but not through PX settings. The slider only needed to switch to a new layout on mobile when things got too small. This was the precise behavior I required, and produced excellent results.
This functionality has been removed and there seems to be no replacement features implemented. I’m sure there were reasons for the change, but the end result is that, as a user, I find the new version of Smart Slider to be less responsive and more difficult to work with.
I hope this feedback is of use.Edit: After doing some checking, I’m certain I did not use any absolute layers in my slider, so there must have been other changes that are causing the problems. The removal of text adaptive sizing would of course be one, but there must have been others to do with positioning.
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