I've mentioned this idea before, but having a service which allowed you to reliably get image thumbs for a given file at a specified width/height would obviate the srcset. And prevent cache fragmentation on img resolutions.
On Friday, October 16, 2015, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> wrote: > We can indeed fall back to TTS if the spoken article is not available, or > offer a choice between TTS and the spoken version. The intention was for > this to be a quick win of surfacing a useful, if lesser-known, facet of > Wikipedia content. > > That being said, this doesn't necessarily need to be a blocker for > transitioning the Content Service to Parsoid. If all else fails, we can > ascertain the audio URL on the client side based on the File page name. As > for transcodings of video files, we already make a separate API call to > retrieve them, so perhaps we can continue to do that until we're able to > get them directly from Parsoid? > It sounds like a more pressing issue right now is the srcset attributes... > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Bernd Sitzmann <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > > It looks like Mobile Apps and Mobile Web have different priority > > > > requirements from Parsoid here. Looking at > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoken_articles, I also see > > that > > > > there are only 1243 spoken wikipedia articles (that are probably not > > all > > > > the latest version of these articles). It also doesn't look like the > > > video > > > > player works currently in mobile web or in mobile apps (except maybe > > > > Android ?). > > > > > > > With due respect for the hard work people have put in on that project, is > > there any indication Spoken Articles has any traction and will grow > beyond > > that ~1K articles? Wouldn't using Android's TTS API to read the most > > up-to-date version of the article be a much better user experience (35M > > articles, always up-to-date, instead of 1K articles, almost always out of > > date?) > > > > Luis > > > > > > -- > > Luis Villa > > Sr. Director of Community Engagement > > Wikimedia Foundation > > *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely > share > > in the sum of all knowledge.* > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > -- > Dmitry Brant > Mobile Apps Team (Android) > Wikimedia Foundation > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle IRC: bgerstle _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
