Re: [Design] Animate (All The Things)

Hey, Matt(superm401) merged my patch relating to animation to mediawiki/core a few days back (yay!! \o/). I asked him if it made sense to add some basic animations (slideUp, fadeInUp) to core so that more extensions can make use of it. He said that not too many extensions are using animation and thus it doesn't make sense to add more things to core (I agree). I also feel that a lot of extensions might not be using animations because the code is long, boring and full of vendor prefixes. They probably *would* if it were easier to add animations. We have a Catch-22 here and we must solve it! I have a 5 step (evil) plan - 1. Brainstorm: Figure out where animation might make sense. Not because animations are fun (somuchfun) but because they really aid user interaction. I NEED YOUR HELP HERE! 2. Submit Patches: Once we agree that "extension A" (not necessarily an extension could be any interface element) needs an animation I'll code and submit a patch to it which will hopefully get merged. 3. Talk to Matt again and show him all the places where animations are being used. 4. If Matt agrees, add those animations to core and submit new patches to all those extensions to use the core animations. 5. PROFIT?? {$_$} I know Pau and Gilles are doing this for the MultimediaViewer, it'll be great if we could get more ideas. Looking forward to hearing from everyone ¯\{^_^}/¯ --prtksxna _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design