A quick not on next steps"
In case '[EPIC] Promote usage of "print->pdf" an article on
mobile'[1]
isn't planned to be deployed sometime soon how
about considering some
kind of temporary and helpful "quick fix"?
It could be something like filling the blank spaces of
unloaded images
with some helpful text that act as links. The helpful text might be
something like, "Click here to see <unloaded> image", for example. The
user could be taken to taken to the location of the image file when he
taps the text. I'm suggesting this believing that it would be possible
to identify the unloaded images.
I guess this doesn't require much work and could be a "quick fix". This
is not required if [1] is being planned to be deployed "soon".
[1] :
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163472
Relatively "soon". We're planning on tackling this in the next three
months. If we consider some time for testing, etc, it should be out within
4-5 months from now. Since the print to PDF functionality from the browser
doesn't have heavy usage, we weren't planning on doing a quick fix in the
meantime, but I like the idea of having a general warning or text that lets
the user know why images are not appearing.
Once again, thanks for the feedback!
- Olga
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Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team
https://wikimediafoundation.org/