2010/3/26 Glanthor glanthor@gmail.com:
Hi!
I've read on the techblog that the new UI go live in April. I have some questions:
- What version? Acai, babaco, citron?
Babaco, mostly. The features being made default are the Vector skin and the enhanced toolbar (including the new dialogs).
- How/where could a wiki customize the special character insert menu,
and the inserted strings?
The entire toolbar can be customized using site JS. There are examples at http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolbar_customization ; these currently don't mention how to add/modify special characters entries, I'll add examples for that as well.
And the embed file (picture) button inserts this: "[[Example.jpg]]", without any "File:" or "Image:"!
That's a bug, thanks for reporting it.
- The search and replace button is available in firefox, but does not
appear at all in opera. Why?
Because Opera is broken is subtle ways that make it very difficult to get S&R to work right. We could either enable a broken version of S&R in Opera and be yelled at because it corrupts wikitext (very bad) or disable the feature in Opera (less bad). In the future, S&R should work in Opera as well.
- Currently the new navigable TOC does not work on FF/Opera at all
(I've tried those).
That's deliberate, the TOC requires the iframe, which was disabled because of copy-paste issues. We're also not enabling NTOC as a default feature, so this is irrelevant.
Not too early for live deployment?
Your list consists of a trivial bug (missing File: prefix), a feature (protecting Opera users from text corruption) and the disabling of an unrelated feature that's not slated to go live in April, so I wouldn't say it's too early.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)