Hi everybody,
Following up on last week's email, the team has made significant
improvements to the *enhanced search box*:
- We developed a JavaScript-only version of the language picker, on top
of the previous patch, so that users who have JS enabled (93% of our
traffic) get a nicer version of the language picker.
- Shorter language code is displayed, allowing more space for text
within the search input.
- Triggers the native selector on mobile devices.
- The search box looks better overall.
Users who disable JavaScript, or are using old IE versions, get the native
selector already presented in last email.
*It's merged into master, and deployed on beta!*
*Check it out:* http://www.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/
*Deployment to production *
(Phab ticket for reference: Epic T125472
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125472>)
The patch has been submitted for Thursday's Evening SWAT (Thu 00:00–01:00
UTC, Wed 16:00–17:00 PST)
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Thursday.2C.C2.A0March.C2.A010>
.
Last chance to enjoy the "good old search" https://www.wikipedia.org/ !
Chris <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)> and Deborah
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)> will answer any
question or concern related to this deployment
*Some screenshots:*
*Modern browsers:*
Chrome, JS: http://i.imgur.com/Jb8JVbd.png
Chrome, no-JS: http://i.imgur.com/JcBfz2h.png (basic language picker
because no JS)
*IE browsers:*
IE8, JS: http://i.imgur.com/Nef2rn6.png (basic language picker because old
IE)
IE9, JS: http://i.imgur.com/o1yrhcA.png (basic language picker because old
IE)
IE10, JS: http://i.imgur.com/OY6MVwJ.png
IE11, JS: http://i.imgur.com/nQUk8fg.png
*Note: the CSS for the suggestions needs some attention, currently seeing
weird padding.*
*Mobile browsers:*
iOS, JS: http://i.imgur.com/7mbCKu6.png
iOS, no-JS: http://i.imgur.com/F2rQpEE.png (basic language picker because
no JS)
Note that JS is required for the typeahead/suggestions feature (this is
already the case with the current page, no regression).
If you don't have JS, you will have to submit the form in order to get
results.
*Next A/B test: Use language detection to re-arrange the primary links to
suit the user better*
*Coming soon!*
The team has also made significant progress, stay tuned!
For the Wikipedia.org portal team,
Julien.
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