Here's a quick audit of potential issues/blockers for OOJS migration:

Elements in mediawiki-ui that are missing in OOJS UI:
* stackable "block" buttons (needed for MobileFrontend)
* big buttons (used by UploadWizard)
* large inputs (used in Flow)
* anchors (used in MobileFrontend)

Elements in jQueryUI that are missing in OOJS UI:
* datepicker (used by UploadWizard)
* multi-select (used by CentralNotice)

Styles which do not match between mediawiki-ui and OOJS UI:
* constructive, destructive, progressive buttons - Which styles do we want to use?
* frameless constructive, destructive, progressive buttons - Which styles do we want to use?
* disabled buttons - The disabled buttons in OOJS UI are difficult to read. They should probably adopt mediawiki-ui's disabled style.
* standalone icon buttons - much smaller in OOJS UI, we probably need two different size options.

Can't tell if styles match due to OOjs living style guide entries that aren't actually living (uses screenshots instead):
* ButtonGroupWidget
* PopupButtonWidget
* ButtonInputWidget
* FormLayout
* PanelLayout
* Dialog
* ProcessDialog
* MessageDialog

Kaldari

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Trevor Parscal <tparscal@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Replies inline. Hopefully some useful clarification.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:

<snip>

* OOjs UI styles (i.e. Trevor's styles)

* mediawiki-ui styles (i.e. Jared and May's styles)

MediaWiki UI is a transitional system which has allowed interfaces to be modernized and the design work to be iterated on, in context, before OOjs UI was ready for use. There shouldn't be any significant differences between MediaWiki UI and OOjs UI, but where there is a difference we should seek to make both systems look the same where possible until MediaWiki UI is no longer in use. OOjs UI within MediaWiki is using the theme designed by May, implemented by Prateek with some help from me. They are not my styles.

 

* jQuery UI/old-Agora styles (i.e. Brandon's styles)

The new styles have not been back-ported to jQuery UI, and I don't believe there's any plan to do so. The objective is instead to stop using jQuery UI and replace those interfaces with their OOjs UI equivalents over time. Unfortunately jQuery UI is difficult to theme, which is actually one of the many reasons we have decided to move away from it.

* default MediaWiki element styling (skins)

Default MediaWiki styling (per skin) is really the lack of styling in practice because none of our skins provide styled form controls or other reusable widgets.

- Trevor 

_______________________________________________
Design mailing list
Design@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design