On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is yet another argument against OOjs UI, which has caused us so many
> problems. But now isn't the time to back out of it, we have to stick with
> it for the launch period.
>

On that note, UploadWizard is now apparently being rewritten to use OOjs
UI. I think that could use more discussion, or it might end up being a
wasted effort...

Moment is also questionable, considering how little functionality it
> provides (couldn't it be replaced by more server-side processing of dates?).
>

Yeah, that's something we should do. Moment is huge and it is mostly about
date arithmetics which we don't use at all.


> I guess an alternative is to start preloading Media Viewer's JS and CSS
> when the mouse cursor gets near thumbnails. What do you think of that?
> Doesn't solve the problem for touch screens, but the benefit for desktop
> would be tangible.
>

Definitely worth trying. We really need to start tracking click-to-display
times though, our current request performance oriented statistics tell us
nothing about how much improvement such an approach would mean.
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