Interesting. What do people think about a compromise as follows? Again, this is not speaking to the Wikipedia Zero case specifically, but rather to the broader mobile web audience...

<noscript> / low-JS device: put "Add to Watchlist" labeled button at the bottom of the article.

High end JS device, possibly on slow connection: keep star at top of page with menubar (and use JS to suppress "Add to Watchlist" labeled button at the bottom of the article).

-Adam

-Adam


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson@gmail.com> wrote:
It would also be worth considering what this would mean if the mobile
skin ever became a desktop skin.
What does usage of the non-JavaScript watch feature on desktop look like?
Also what about super slow connections - are we going to prevent
watching there until they have loaded all the JavaScript - it's always
good to have fallbacks.

In terms of article_action%3Dwatch VS action=watch - you actually want
both. In case one it only catches the case when an anon clicks the
watch star and then logs in/creates an account and then watches the
article. Note this applies to both non-JavaScript and JavaScript
users..

action=watch applies to people who are already logged in with slow
connections / JS disabled;
action=unwatch applies to people who are logged in and unwatch an
article with slow connections / JS disabled.

I'm still not seeing the real benefit here - if it's just about screen
real estate, why don't we just fix the design for this case?