On 17 January 2011 00:35, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
There is the question of what browsers/versions to test for. Should I invest large amounts of time optimising performance in Firefox 3, when FF4 will probably be released before WYSIFTW, and everyone and their cousin upgrades? As a one-man-show, I have to think about these things.
It depends what your goal is. If your goal is to use this by default with core MediaWiki, it's going to have to support Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox 3, as well as a lot of other browsers. If your goal is to create another WikEd, it can support whichever browsers you choose to support. Given the widespread use of Firefox 3, I can't see any widespread adoption of this tool happening without support for it, even if Firefox 4 is on the horizon.
FWIW: testing on a single example, I got 218 sec in FF 3.6.13 and 71 sec in FF 4.0b9 on the same system. FF 3.6 is really quite slow for these purposes. IE9 will be unusable.
FF users seem to update pretty quickly once the new version is released and their favoured extensions have updated. Even IE users seem to update quickly once the new version is out. Except IE6 users, who are of course damned to perdition.
Though obviously, optimisation before feature completion is evil.
Before it goes anywhere serious or universal, it'll need some proper usability testing - to see if Magnus' full screen editing approach actually works for other people.
Finally, there are, undoubtedly, a large number of bugs hidden in the code. I assume they will be weeded out, given enough eyeballs (testers and developers).
Are you looking for testers and developers? Where would a tester submit a bug report? The page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIFTW doesn't seem to address this.
The talk page is being used for this so far.
- d.