Front-end standards group/2016-04-13

Attending: Andrew R-G., Ed S., Jan D., Volker E., Robla, Timo T.

Social[edit]

Welcoming Jan Drewniak as new participant from Discovery

Volker: Task contains lots of arguments in favour (mainly by developers/power users?). However most industry uses are from technical documentation. This is not yet a feature people at large will definitely identify with, understand and want to have. There are also complexities with regards to the diversity of our wiki content (e.g. can be confusing when the heading is a link itself).
Jan: Statistics on existing solutions?
Timo: Not yet, but it is available.E.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:GadgetUsage#vector-headanchor . Let's gather more.

Study options and libraries for a more featureful LocalStorage API in core (AG) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121646
and blocking: Get rid of cookies (tracking) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110353

Ed: will it be usable outside of MW?
Timo: The current version in CN isn't, but it will be as part of moving to core (it only uses utility methods, no logical dependency).

Hash fragments (JR) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/260950

What are we using for Templating here? (e.g. Handlebars) (JD)

TT: Server-side or client-side?
JD: We might be doing "Trending articles" client-side. We're planning on doing client-side as long as infrastructure isn't there server-side
TT: Mustache
JR: Mobile for historical reasons using Hogan.js from Twitter