On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Shivansh Shrivastava developed these mockups which he presented at the > WikiConference India and shared with me at the Mumbai hackathon: > > https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/ajax-mockups/ > > * English Wikipedia main page mockup with newsticker and gallery > I'm not too fond of moving tickers like this; it's a bit distracting, but it's also an accessibility issue: some people may have a hard time getting at that text because it's moving around. The gallery is more intriguing; we definitely need better support for showing sets of nice pictures, and something in that direction would be very nice in a number of places. Again, automatically shifting through them can be an accessibility issue, so shouldn't be generally relied upon but can be good for autoplay-style stuff as long as you can pause it easily and navigate manually. * Sliding login/account creation panel (based on existing GPL'd jQuery > plugin) > This looks super cool! Main practical problem with an ajax login form is that we'd like to migrate all logins over to SSL (required, not optional) somewhere in the medium-term. If you're browsing on http: and then open up a login page, it not being on SSL is a bit of a turn-off (even if it submits to SSL automatically, you can't trust that -- a MiTM attack could change the form easily). Of course if all readers were directed to SSL all the time this wouldn't be an issue, but I believe ops says we're not ready for that yet. :) * Floating table of contents tab > I don't like the particular implementation, but I like the basic idea: it's a piece of UI that's important for navigating around a large article, and it really ought not to be hidden up at the top where you can't get it once you've gone somewhere. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
