https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56433
--- Comment #14 from Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxst...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to comment #11) > The need to quantify the impact has not gone away. My contention is that the > "when in doubt, load font" strategy taken by UniversalLanguageSelector is the > wrong strategy to take, and that its impact on user experience is severe. > > I therefore ask for the team's permission and support to disable font loading > temporarily, so we can collect enough data to estimate the impact of > UniversalLanguageSelector on site performance. This would provide us with the > data we need to determine whether the extension's architecture needs to be > revisited. It seems certain that doing this will lead to some predictable results: * People who hate it will rebel to prevent turning web fonts back on * People who most need web fonts will have their user experience severely impacted during the test * Because the acceptable impact has not been defined, the estimated impact is judged to be severe enough to justify rollback * If the regression is not fixed first, we will be comparing no web fonts to too much web fonts. You might be able to prevent web font functionality by short-circuiting apply and load methods in lib/jquery.webfonts.js. This is however untested and will leave the font selection UI visible, but non-functional. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
