Topic on Talk:Winter

I've just discovered the prototype, and I want to write down my first impressions before any other rational analysis:

• I miss Wikipedia puzzle-ball logo. I've later discovered that it can be seen by zooming out to 90%, but the first gut feeling was one of a void, bare, unadorned page, not aesthetically pleasing. Recovering the left column with the logo made that impression go away.
• I love the clean, modern design, new layout for tools and navigation, and the right sidebar with useful, contextual tools! Good work.

Accessed on chrome browser on Windows 7.

Ok, I have now seen that the design is reactive and the left panel is shown with the window maximized, as well as the labels for buttons.

I have found a big no-no, a showstopper that would make me avoid using this interface in its entirety: none of the new interface buttons work as standard links with respect to the context menu and the "open link in new tab" option. As my navigation style involves opening lots of links at new tabs and accessing them later, I couldn't use this skin except by:

• copying the url,
• manually opening a new tab,
• pasting and loading the url,
• only then navigating to the target section,
• repating the above for each link I want to open.

I usually do all that in quick succession with fast middle-clicks on several links, so this interface makes my usual workflow slow as molasses.

Hrm. They *should* open in new tabs. You are referring to the links below the title (read/edit/history/etc.) ? I'll have to take a look at it.

Either way, this is not something that the production version will encounter.

I should probably explain why the production version won't encounter it: the prototype isn't built on top of MediaWiki and is instead scrubbed entirely "in ram" from Javascript. That means that the links actually don't do anything when they first load, and have to have their actions connected after the fact.

Real MediaWiki installs won't have this problem.

Yes, I was referring to those buttons. They appear as plain text button elements to the context menu, so the "open link in new tab" option is missing.

As these are navigation actions, and not POST forms, it would be best to make them links so that they work as expected for default browser operations (copying the target URL to the clipboard, opening in new tabs, "save target as...")