This is awesome. I love the user drop-down menu especially. My only criticism is that there is no visual distinction between the content and the interface. I would prefer for the content to stand out in some way. Otherwise the page looks somewhat busy and disorganized.
Ryan Kaldari
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hello! I’ve been making a thing. It’s actually got a code-name now! Nomore saying “Vector static header and navigation modification”.
LOTS of stuff going on with this update. Notably: * Now asks for a username on load, so as to set things up * All pages are loaded from the API via JSON. So it’s notjust the single static page. * Got rid of pretty much every color. * Article actions now dock in the header as you scroll. * Table of Contents is now in the header from the beginning * The sidebar’s border goes away as you scroll past it * Lots of links/actions do what you think they should. Most do not.
You can play with it here: http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/ And read more about it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter Here’s your changelog:== Changes, January 20 ==
- New code name: Winter
- System now prompts for a user name upon load and will optionally save
the value. ** This sets up the personal bar to be, well, personal. ** This action ''DOES NOT'' log the user into Wikipedia. ** Saved data can be cleared from the sidebar.
- Searchbox now drops text on focus and replaces it on blur
- Searchbox now has a hover state with invitation text.
- Searchbox icon now turns blue on focus
- Logo now snaps to white background when in locked position.
- Sidebar is now white by default, with a grey border that fades out when
all items in the sidebar are out of view.
- The Table of Contents now appears in the header of the page from the
beginning ** (Previous versions of Winter had the ToC only appear there after the in-page Table of Contents rolled off-screen)
- Article actions now dock in the header when they scroll out of view
(iconfied).
- Added tipsy behaviors.
- Fixed issue with search box positioning.
- Added pencil icons to section edit buttons
- Section edit buttons now are visible at all times but do not have
borders. ** On hover, they turn blue.
- Changed section edit hover transition from 'linear' to 'ease'
- Added footer section
- Added "categories" box in example article
- Added "Typography" toggle in sidebar. Activating it turns on:
** An approximation of restricted measure
- References have returned
- Built a JSON parser into the demo so that different pages can be loaded
via the API.
- Language links are now slotted into the sidebar.
- System correctly recognizes when it's looking at ''User'' content (User:
and User_talk:) and adds icons and functionality as required
- Handles contributions (sort of - buggy)
=== Known Issues ===
- Contributions views:
** Timestamps don't sort right ** Comment fields are not correctly parsed from wikitext to html ** Size changes are not correctly reflected
- Redlinks do not work
- System does not handle 404 loads correctly (fails silently, requires
reload)
- Internal hash URLs don't scroll correctly
- Some buttons don't go away when they should
- Loading from JSON breaks the nice little "section hover" stuff.
Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
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