Correction:
* please look at how we are doing icons in /MobileFrontend/
Also see discussion on external link icons which may also be relevant
and good to standardise on:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In terms of icons please please please collaborate on
that before
coding something up.
In mobile we have done a lot of this with icon classes and icons.less
[1] to try to standardise on sizes and icons - it would be great to
upstream that to core as a mw-ui-icon
At the very least please look at how we are doing icons in core and
let's see if we can come up with some shared understanding of how
icons should work.
I'm also hoping to converge on Flow with this and I tried to make a
start to a mediawiki ui icon library in a patch for core to put the
watchlist settings on the watchlist page which was apparently
controversial [2] although to me seems like a no brainer.
[1]
https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMobileFrontend.git/…
[2]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/139872/
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
This is a heads up about some of the things the Growth team is thinking
about and working on with mediawiki.ui.
We're in the process of adding optional icon support for mediawiki.ui
buttons, with browser support down to IE8.[A]
We're going to get rid of the text shadow on the default mediawiki.ui
buttons.[B] It's distracting and doesn't increase readability. We don't use
gradients in the colored buttons for similar reasons.
We need to do some tweaking of the design of the default mediawiki.ui
button.[D] We're designing the second iteration of the anonymous editor
signup invitation UI to A/B test.[E] When looking at these, you can see that
the default mediawiki.ui button ("continue editing") almost seems disabled.
We should talk about ways to improve on this design, such as darkening the
text color or giving the default button a background color.
This may come up in the WMF UX team's weekly design review as well, but I
wanted to give a heads up about these issues since the library is in
MediaWiki core.
A.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55535
B.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61940
C. These are viewable at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodilia?gettingStartedReturn=true if you're
logged in
D. See style guide:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/section-2.html
E.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signup_invites_…
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