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
> >
> >
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