René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Interaction discoverability","articleBody":"A discussion started in #1432 about how to help new users discover all the available interactions in our plots. Particularly the doubleclick interactions, which we're adding a new one of there, but it could apply to some of the less obvious single-click interactions like clicking an axis end to type a new value, or dragging from the corner just outside the plot to zoom the corresponding ends of both x and y. We try to hint at these by changing the cursor when you happen to mouse over the region, but I'm not sure how many people notice that.\r\n\r\nDoubleclick interactions we currently describe with `Lib.notifier` when you do some related thing, but nobody really likes them. They're aimed at new users, but these users might not even notice them the one and only time they appear, while experienced users probably just get annoyed by them.\r\n\r\nIn prehistoric times we had what we called a \"lightbox\" that you could turn on to frame each clickable or draggable element in a colored box, adding correspondingly colored notes about what you could do in each box. We could resurrect something like that?\r\n\r\nWould love to get some more input on this - @cldougl @delekru @chriddyp @jackparmer @etpinard any ideas?","author":{"url":"https://github.com/alexcjohnson","@type":"Person","name":"alexcjohnson"},"datePublished":"2017-03-02T17:05:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/1436/plotly.js/issues/1436"}