Make the frontend table view consistent with grid view

[edwardchalstrey1]

• Hover shows description
• Clicking links to model/data/project page instead of a dropdown
• Truncated description in table

[ots22]

Try clicking on a table row which should reveal some more details - perhaps not obvious that this happens!

[edwardchalstrey1]

Ah yes, in which case some thoughts, feel free to disagree:

• Should still have a description column, but it's ok for this to be squished to one line such that it reads "This model does blah and blah..." with the full description viewable on click. Later on, what get's expanded will be the full "model card" anyway, but I think having a preview description would be handy, since the model names don't contain a lot of info
• Somewhere should be text that says something like "Expand" which makes it obvious that you can click
• Weakly held opinion: whilst the grid view is prettier, perhaps the list view is better to be the default when you visit "Models" or "Data" simply because you don't have to manually hover over images before reading the description, or seeing the task labels

[ots22]

Should still have a description column, but it's ok for this to be squished to one line such that it reads "This model does blah and blah..." with the full description viewable on click. Later on, what get's expanded will be the full "model card" anyway, but I think having a preview description would be handy, since the model names don't contain a lot of info

Yes that sounds good. The full entry data as it was before resulted in a table that was too wide and messy, but there is definitely room now. Something like the first ~50 chars of the description perhaps?

Somewhere should be text that says something like "Expand" which makes it obvious that you can click

There is a way to do this in the React table component we're using (I think it makes a little + icon at the start of the row to make it seem expandable).

Maybe making the whole row a link to the usual model card is preferable to expanding the row anyway, I'm not sure - I think we should link to the full model card one way or another (the same one the thumbnail view links to).

Weakly held opinion: whilst the grid view is prettier, perhaps the list view is better to be the default when you visit "Models" or "Data" simply because you don't have to manually hover over images before reading the description, or seeing the task labels

Also don't have a strong opinion, although I think they both encourage slightly different kinds of exploration. One of the intentions with the thumbnail view was to make 'free association' based on the images possible, without being guided too strongly by the names or descriptions (although admittedly we don't have any data on how people interact with this).

[edwardchalstrey1]

hmm interesting point on that last one!

Assigning this to myself for the React exp!

[edwardchalstrey1]

I have updated this issue based on recent discussions