Looking good, some feedback…

   - I think we should explore putting Watch and TOC together, or at least
   associating them more closely.
   - tipsy being to the left of, covers the other icons, I'm not sure if we
   even need it, perhaps we could just rely on regular browser tooltips.
   - I think that moving the TOC icon over should be animated, currently
   the snap makes me look up, and is a bit distracting, the opposite of what
   we want.
   - I think we can kill the in-line TOC
   - You can't currently scroll the TOC flyout
   - Idea : highlight the current section in the TOC flyout
   - when language list is not collapsable the left sidebar take a long
   time to go away
   - Placeholder text and user input is not aligned with each other in
   search box






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On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:11 PM, May Tee-Galloway
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Added my comments on mediawiki.
>
> @Steven:
>
> No matter how much anyone doesn't like the globe including myself, it's a
> huge part of Wikipedia's brand like you mentioned and shouldn't be wiped
> out just for the sake of our personal preference. We should improve and not
> trash it. Even if we trashed it and replaced with something else, we still
> need SOMETHING people can relate to in regards to the project. Why do this
> when people already relate the globe as Wikipedia. Wabi sabi wasabi man.
>
> mm
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Brandon Harris <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>         Hello!
>>>
>>>         I’ve been making a thing.  It’s actually got a code-name now!
>>>  No more saying “Vector static header and navigation modification”.
>>>
>>>         LOTS of stuff going on with this update.  Notably:
>>>
>>>                 * Now asks for a username on load, so as to set things up
>>>                 * All pages are loaded from the API via JSON.  So it’s
>>> not just the single static page.
>>>                 * Got rid of pretty much every color.
>>>                 * Article actions now dock in the header as you scroll.
>>>                 * Table of Contents is now in the header from the
>>> beginning
>>>                 * The sidebar’s border goes away as you scroll past it
>>>                 * Lots of links/actions do what you think they should.
>>>  Most do not.
>>>
>>>         You can play with it here: http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/
>>>
>>>         And read more about it here:
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter
>>>
>>
>> \o/
>>
>> The search prototype is great, and so are the improvements to the
>> toolbar, particularly the relation between the TOC and the way the page
>> actions slide out on scrolldown. I can't wait to see this as a beta
>> feature.
>>
>> Some very small things:
>>
>> - I realize the icons are mostly placeholders, but the user contribs one
>> is seriously confusing. It looks like there are two edit buttons when you
>> scroll down.
>> - I think the main edit button at the top should not be the quiet state
>> from mw-ui. There is very little use of color on the skin now, so it's not
>> like we're overwhelming things. We need to stop being afraid to make a few
>> things LOUDER, particularly since in this prototype we're removing some
>> color (like the Vector borders).
>> - The line underneath the page title h1 is a different thickness (and
>> color?) than the other borders. It's mildly annoying.
>>
>> And one bigger thing... The lack of the puzzle globe when scrolling. I
>> know you hate the puzzle globe and so do many of our designers. But it's a
>> key part of our identity, and it's also a really nice large target for
>> "home" on desktop. Thinking of this as a potential future default look,
>> splitting the logo and wordmark on every page like that is a serious
>> change. We should have a larger conversation about it I think internally.
>> Either we do think the globe is an important part of our brand or we don't.
>> If we think it's so unimportant as to remove it on scroll, then that has
>> pretty wide implications for our branding I think.
>>
>> Winter is coming, (I couldn't resist the Game of Thrones reference.)
>>
>> --
>> Steven Walling,
>> Product Manager
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/
>>
>
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