[Wikitech-l] Re: Drop dedicated support for IE 11, Edge Legacy and Opera

2024-05-23 Thread Volker E.
Update from yesterday: The compatibility template has been updated to reflect the outlined browser support changes . On Tue, May 21,

[Wikitech-l] Re: Drop dedicated support for IE 11, Edge Legacy and Opera

2024-05-14 Thread Volker E.
ke > > On Mon, May 13, 2024, 4:18 PM Volker E. wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> the Design System Team (DST) is proposing the following changes to >> MediaWiki browser support [1]: >> - Drop support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) >> - Drop support for all versi

[Wikitech-l] Drop dedicated support for IE 11, Edge Legacy and Opera

2024-05-13 Thread Volker E.
Hi everyone, the Design System Team (DST) is proposing the following changes to MediaWiki browser support [1]: - Drop support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) - Drop support for all versions of Edge Legacy - Drop support for Opera - Increase Basic (Grade C) support for Chrome and Firefox to

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.45.0 released -- keyboard and screenreader accessibility improvements, jQuery update

2022-09-29 Thread Volker E.
Hi all, We've released OOUI v0.45.0 yesterday. It will be rolling out on the normal train, Tuesday, 04 October 2022. Highlights in this release since v0.44.0: - Raise underlying jQuery to v3.6.1, up from v3.6.0 in alignment to equal change in MediaWiki. - Drop 'stopHand', renamed to 'hand'

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.44.0 released -- performance improvements due to dropped support for certain browsers including IE 9 & 10

2022-05-24 Thread Volker E.
Hi all, excited to share that we've released OOUI v0.44.0. It already happened last Tuesday. ;) Due to activities around Global Accessibility Awareness Day[0] and Wikimedia Hackathon[1] (hope the ones participating had all fun!) the release email is coming now. It is rolling out on the normal

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.43.0 released -- new features, icon amendments and performance improvements

2022-01-17 Thread Volker E.
Hi, excited to share that we've released OOUI v0.43.0 last Thursday. It will rollout on the normal train tomorrow, Tuesday, 18 January 2022. Highlights in this release since v0.42.0: - MessageWidget features now a `showClose` option for the optional closing notices et al. - MenuSelectWidget

[Wikitech-l] Re: WVUI v0.3.0 released – last minor version incl. new components

2021-08-30 Thread Volker E.
cross our projects”. [4] > > ACN > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 6:37 PM Kunal Mehta wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On 8/26/21 11:48 PM, Volker E. wrote: > > > We've released version 0.3.0 of WVUI earlier today. > > > One of the agreements from Vue

[Wikitech-l] WVUI v0.3.0 released – last minor version incl. new components

2021-08-27 Thread Volker E.
Hi all, We've released version 0.3.0 of WVUI earlier today. One of the agreements from Vue.js developer summit [0] organized by the Design System team has been to start a new library and repository next with all other technical decisions made, a.o. being based on Vue 3 or no JavaScript only

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.42.0 released – less render-blocking code via updated browser support, upgrade to jQuery 3.6.0 & OOjs 6.0.0

2021-08-19 Thread Volker E.
Hi everybody, We've released version 0.42.0 of the OOUI library* yesterday. It's going to rollout with normal train next Tuesday, 24 August 2021. Highlights in this release: - Removal of code fragments for browsers, that were taken out of basic support, most of those affected released before

[Wikitech-l] Vue.js has been selected as Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework

2021-08-02 Thread Volker E.
Hi all, With excitement we're sharing today that Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's official choice for adoption as future JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki. The evaluation of front-end frameworks officially started mid 2019, as part of the Platform Evolution program’s goal to evolve our

[Wikitech-l] Proposal for removal without deprecation of capitalize-all-nouns skin functionality from MW core

2021-07-19 Thread Volker E.
Hi all, we propose to remove `capitalize-all-nouns` skin functionality from MediaWiki core without deprecation in 1.37. Patch to remove: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/435638 Patch to continue functionality in Monobook: Bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97892 Existing

[Wikitech-l] Increase MediaWiki basic support requirements to TLS 1.2 supporting browsers

2021-03-08 Thread Volker E.
://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266866#6591703 --- Volker E. Lead UX Engineer Desktop Improvements/Design System Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.41.0 released

2020-12-07 Thread Volker E.
Hi, we've released OOUI v0.41.0 last Thursday. It will rollout on the normal train tomorrow, Tuesday, 08 December. Highlights in this release since v0.40.0: - Accessibility enhancements on PopupWidget (keyboard tabbing order) and ToggleSwitchWidget. Thanks to volunteer contributor Edwin Tam. -

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.40.0 and 0.40.1 released

2020-08-10 Thread Volker E.
Hi, we've released v0.40.0 and follow-up hot fix v0.40.1 of OOUI library last Friday. It will rollout on the normal train tomorrow, Tuesday, 11 August. Highlights in this release: - Removal of Internet Explorer 8 specific code and fallbacks, largely reducing size of CSS (~800+ lines on all

[Wikitech-l] Vue.js Migration Project Charter released

2020-07-01 Thread Volker E.
Hi, I'm excited to share the release of the Vue.js Migration Project Charter[0] today. This is an update on the Foundation's evaluation and adoption of Vue.js framework for building user-interfaces in a modern, developer-friendly, inclusive, and internationalization-ready way. It is a result of

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.39.0 released

2020-05-21 Thread Volker E.
Hi, we've released v0.39.0 of the OOUI library this Tuesday. It will rollout on the normal train next Tuesday, 26 May. Highlights in this release: - Text flow of form layouts on mobile devices was improved, surfaced in Advanced Mobile Contributions - Additionally this release removed deprecated

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.37.0 released -- OOjs update, mobile form layout improvements

2020-02-28 Thread Volker E.
Hi, we've released v0.37.0 of OOUI this Wednesday. It will rollout on the normal train next Tuesday. Highlights in this release: - Underlying library OOjs was updated to v3.0.1, up from v3.0.0, nominally a breaking change. - Text flow of form layouts on mobile devices was improved, surfaced in

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.36.0 & v0.36.1 released – PHP 7.2.9+ required & Design Style Guide components amendments

2019-12-15 Thread Volker E.
Hello, last couple of days we've released v0.36.0 & minor follow-up v0.36.1 to ensure backwards compatibility. We caught the issue before rolling release out. Version v0.36.1 will roll out on normal train next Tuesday. Highlights in this release were - Breaking change: Requiring PHP 7.2.9+, up

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.35.0 released – new CSS unit approach

2019-10-18 Thread Volker E.
Hello, end of last week saw releases of OOUI v0.35.0 and minor follow-up v0.35.1, they have rolled-out on normal train this week. The highlights were - Using `px` where applicable over `em`s. For most box sizing properties (min-width, min-height, margin, border, border-radius, padding,

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.34.0 released - update to OOjs v3.0.0 & jQuery v3.4.1 (breaking changes), frameless buttons hover/active states, iOS Safari ProcessDialog scrolling fix & more

2019-09-04 Thread Volker E.
Hello everyone, I'm excited to announce that we've released OOUI v0.34.0 today. Key highlights of this release are (summarizing since v0.33.0): - Update to OOjs v3.0.0, up from v2.2.2 - Update to jQuery v3.4.1, up from v3.3.1 Both updates above are considered breaking changes. Please carefully

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.32.0 released – native dropdown mobile menu, frameless tabs, SelectFileWidget improvements and breaking changes

2019-05-29 Thread Volker E.
Hello everyone, I'm excited to announce that we've released OOUI v0.32.0 yesterday. Key highlights of this release (summarizing since v0.31.0): - DropdownInputWidgets now provide native OS menus on mobile. - Tabs are now also available in 'frameless' flavor and mobile behaviour has been

[Wikitech-l] Reading experience improvements on mobile are live

2019-04-17 Thread Volker E.
Hi all, last week we've successfully brought the improved font choice to our mobile skin MinervaNeue onto all wikis. It helps to provide our users a better reading experience – across languages, in and beyond latin scripts and a more modern typographic feel to many of our text-focussed projects,

Re: [Wikitech-l] OOUI: problem with button groups

2019-04-15 Thread Volker E.
Hi Huji, I hope you've found your questions clarified with above. While I appreciate the continued efforts here on OOUI questions, I would like to propose different channels for your future technical issues. Wikimedia Foundation currently test-pilots “Wikimedia Developer Support”[0] or

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.31.0 released – PHP layouts, breaking changes et al

2019-03-14 Thread Volker E.
Hello everyone, I'm pleased to announce that we've released OOUI v0.31.0 yesterday. Key highlights of this release: - IndexLayout (tab layout) and all its dependent layouts - StackLayout, - MenuLayout, - TabPanelLayout and TabSelectWidget/TabOptionWidget are all now provided server-side in

[Wikitech-l] Improving reading experience on mobile

2019-03-12 Thread Volker E.
Hi all, in my part of the Design team at Wikimedia Foundation, I'd like to share an upcoming change in typography, that might be of interest for you: Improving reading experience on mobile [0] – As many of our projects are putting textual content first, we are consistently aiming at best possible

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2019-03-06 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2019-03-07 Thread Volker E.
Adding UI Standardization update, that made it in the notes 15 mins after meeting start: > > UI Standardization > > * Blocked by: > > * Blocking: > > * Updates: > > ** Project Improve mobile reading experience through operating system font >> stack ongoing: >>

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.30.0 released – accessibility improvements et al

2018-12-20 Thread Volker E.
Hello everyone, I'm excited to announce that we've released OOUI v0.30.0 today. Key highlights of this release: - OOUI widgets are now fully accessible in regards to following the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines specification requirements. That's my personal pre-holiday highlight, as the

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.29.2 released

2018-10-09 Thread Volker E.
Hi everyone, last week we've released OOUI v0.29.0 and identified sequentially two issues on Beta-Cluster which we've addressed in v0.29.1 next day and v0.29.2 released yesterday. Bartosz Dziewoński took the chance and hardened the JS/PHP comparison test suite with former hotfix. Thanks to Pablo

Re: [Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.28.0 released

2018-08-17 Thread Volker E.
Thanks for that question, Thiemo. We've been aware of that naming weakness and we're already underway of resolving it.[0] In the mid-term 'advanced' will be turned into 'settings', but we had to deprecate and rename former 'settings' to 'pageSettings' before. [0]

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.28.0 released

2018-08-16 Thread Volker E.
Hello everyone, I'm pleased to announce that we've released OOUI v0.28.0 this Tuesday. Key highlights of this release: - New OOUI “Tutorials” section[0] Special thanks to GSOC student Hagar Shilo, who has provided us an excellent addition to our documentation. The tutorials simplify

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.27.0 release (breaking change)

2018-05-09 Thread Volker E.
in v0.25.2 (James D. Forrester) 'alert' indicator has been deprecated a while ago and is unused in all known implementations, therefore we've removed it completely. Deprecations since last release: * icons: Deprecate 'editing-citation' icons from 'content' (Volker E.) We've added an explicit 'editing

[Wikitech-l] OOUI 0.26.0 release

2018-03-20 Thread Volker E.
Hello everyone, I'm excited to announce that we've released OOUI v0.26.0 today. It will be in MediaWiki core from 1.31.0-wmf.26, which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in the regular train, starting on Tuesday 27 March. In this breaking release email I would like to begin with pointing

[Wikitech-l] OOUI 0.25.0 release

2018-01-10 Thread Volker E.
above, this and the following two changes are for naming consistency reasons. * MultiSelectWidget: Rename getters (Prateek Saxena) * SelectWidget: Rename `getSelectedItem` to `findSelectedItem` (Prateek Saxena) * icons: Flag indicators 'previous' & 'next' as to be removed (Volker E.) In our q

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki code search

2017-12-21 Thread Volker E.
Great, thanks Kunal! Another time that you've addressed a major pain point with a convincingly simple solution. On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Derick N. Alangi wrote: > Hello Kunal, > > This tool is superb (i've tried some of it's functionalities out) and it'll > go a

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: OOjs UI 0.24.0 release (breaking change)

2017-10-19 Thread Volker E.
ripeSideMenu' was renamed to 'draggable' and moved to 'movement' pack in v0.22.2. It's now completely dropped. Use it with it's new name from 'movement' instead. * icons: Remove 'eye'/'eyeClosed' icons (Volker E.) We want to use 'alerts' pack more deliberately in major products and moved 'eye'/'ey

[Wikitech-l] OOjs UI 0.23.0 release (breaking change)

2017-09-05 Thread Volker E.
consider if they affect your code. Breaking changes since last release: * Remove CardLayout and references in IndexLayout (Volker E.) CardLayout was renamed to TabPanelLayout in v0.21.3 and all its references updated back then; now its alias has been removed. * Remove FloatingMenuSelectWidget

[Wikitech-l] OOjs UI 0.19.0 release (breaking change)

2017-02-01 Thread Volker E.
look over them to see if they affect your code. Breaking changes since last release: * ButtonWidget: Switch `box-sizing` over to `border-box` (Volker E) Switching `box-sizing` to `border-box` value, making it easier to calculate sizes and centralizing occurrences already in use by widgets

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

2016-12-13 Thread Volker E.
Hi, my name is Volker, I’m part of the Editing department on the Design team and I’m leading the UI Standardization efforts at the Foundation. I would like to address Pine's original response about community involvement – when I've started my employment at the Foundation one of the first things

[Wikitech-l] OOjs UI 0.18.0 release (breaking change)

2016-11-09 Thread Volker E.
ection. We left the old name for more than a year, but now it's removed, so you'll switch from passing a boolean to one of the strings 'ltr' and 'rtl'. * MediaWiki theme: Remove deprecated `constructive` variables (Volker E) We scrapped the 'constructive' flagged state in the MediaWiki theme