Interesting. What do people think about a compromise as follows? Again, this is not speaking to the Wikipedia Zero case specifically, but rather to the broader mobile web audience...
<noscript> / low-JS device: put "Add to Watchlist" labeled button at the bottom of the article. High end JS device, possibly on slow connection: keep star at top of page with menubar (and use JS to suppress "Add to Watchlist" labeled button at the bottom of the article). -Adam -Adam On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > It would also be worth considering what this would mean if the mobile > skin ever became a desktop skin. > What does usage of the non-JavaScript watch feature on desktop look like? > Also what about super slow connections - are we going to prevent > watching there until they have loaded all the JavaScript - it's always > good to have fallbacks. > > In terms of article_action%3Dwatch VS action=watch - you actually want > both. In case one it only catches the case when an anon clicks the > watch star and then logs in/creates an account and then watches the > article. Note this applies to both non-JavaScript and JavaScript > users.. > > action=watch applies to people who are already logged in with slow > connections / JS disabled; > action=unwatch applies to people who are logged in and unwatch an > article with slow connections / JS disabled. > > I'm still not seeing the real benefit here - if it's just about screen > real estate, why don't we just fix the design for this case? >
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