If anything I'd assume animation (CSS not JS) should be integrates into
mediawiki.ui so that like buttons and form fields its use will be
consistent across product and uses.



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On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Prateek Saxena <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Matt(superm401) merged my patch relating to animation to
> mediawiki/core a few days back (yay!! \o/). I asked him if it made
> sense to add some basic animations (slideUp, fadeInUp) to core so that
> more extensions can make use of it. He said that not too many
> extensions are using animation and thus it doesn't make sense to add
> more things to core (I agree). I also feel that a lot of extensions
> might not be using animations because the code is long, boring and
> full of vendor prefixes. They probably *would* if it were easier to
> add animations.
>
> We have a Catch-22 here and we must solve it! I have a 5 step (evil) plan -
>
> 1. Brainstorm: Figure out where animation might make sense. Not
> because animations are fun (somuchfun) but because they really aid
> user interaction. I NEED YOUR HELP HERE!
>
> 2. Submit Patches: Once we agree that "extension A" (not necessarily
> an extension could be any interface element) needs an animation I'll
> code and submit a patch to it which will hopefully get merged.
>
> 3. Talk to Matt again and show him all the places where animations are
> being used.
>
> 4. If Matt agrees, add those animations to core and submit new patches
> to all those extensions to use the core animations.
>
> 5. PROFIT?? {$_$}
>
>
> I know Pau and Gilles are doing this for the MultimediaViewer, it'll
> be great if we could get more ideas. Looking forward to hearing from
> everyone ¯\{^_^}/¯
>
>
> --prtksxna
>
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