I have been rewriting the languages bar in the wiki and I would like some feedback.
The motivations for the rewrite are: The bar makes extensive use of the #ifexist parser function, which is expensive in Mediawiki and limited in the number of times it can be called. Most of the pages in http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_too_many_expensive_parser_function_calls are at least exacerbated by the presence of a language bar. To mitigate the issue above, minority languages are hardcoded into the hidden lower box even when translations exist. Up to now, the only response available for criticism of the banishment [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap/64130] has been to adjust the choice of languages tested for display at the top. The red links are hidden by a script that is only executed when the page has loaded. This is a particular nuisance on mobile devices where it can take up most of the screen. The list of languages is spread over three locations with an intricate syntax and different ways of entering them depending on the size of their presence in OSM. The new bar uses CSS to avoid the issues above, with a more detailed explanation at http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/User:Wynndale/language_test . But: My CSS and web scripting skills are worthy of the Daily WTF and this is still a proof of concept at this stage. There are stray bars on each side of this page from the language bar markup. The script to view red links assumes that the links are two levels below the bar. Is it worth making it a show/hide toggle? There is a style “padding : 2px;” in the CSS definition that was inherited from the existing bar, which may be a problem on mobile devices. For all I know, there are sites out there that have their own maybe better solutions. -- Andrew _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
