On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
These changes will need to be carefully tested/validated. If you want to take a look at an early early (!) prototype (!!), see http://multimedia-alpha.wmflabs.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo , but please note that anything but the basic view experience is placeholder right now (as is the "Details" icon etc.), and the caption-above-the-fold is not implemented yet. We've looked at some of this with folks at Wikimania, and the community feedback there was very positive. But like I said, give us a bit more time on this.
This looks much better! (though it appears to have problems with PNGs...)
It does look better, and addresses *some* of the many major problems with the Media Viewer. But there are still show-stopper problems. Iterating while badly broken software is still deployed to many millions of readers is a bad practice, though, so for the moment I'll leave it at that.
Erik, as I have said before -- your request for a bit more time would be much better received if you would simply revert the change, as per consensus on 3 major projects, while you work to fix this broken software. It's a very simple and non-dramatic option you have had available the entire time.
Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]