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.org> wrote:

        Hello!

        I’ve been making a thing.  It’s actually got a code-name now!  No more 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 not just 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.



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Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation

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