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.
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >
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