On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 7:21 AM Daniel Kinzler dkinzler@wikimedia.org wrote:
The purpose of the Frontent Architecture Working Group is to propose an architecture for a more modern front-end to MediaWiki, enabling a richer user experience. Efforts to modernize the user interface have often struggled with limitations imposed by MediaWiki core and the overall system architecture.
When I read things like this, I worry that "limitations" that people want to get rid of include things like "basic functionality if the browser lacks JS/CSS (or has them disabled)" and "basic functionality on a fairly generic LAMP webhost, without running a bunch of bespoke services (even via containers)."
Note neither of those limitations preclude requiring more advanced technology for "a richer user experience", but IMO we should carefully consider the tradeoff each time we lock some functionality behind a "richer" wall.