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MediaWiki should not expose any UI elements which require JavaScript when it is off (tracking)
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Author: gryllida

Description:
from bug 54730#c3

The general design principle in MediaWiki is to only show functional user interface elements (for example, unprivileged users are not shown a delete tab or a protect tab)

I would like MediaWiki to not expose any features which require JavaScript when it is off.

This means, for instance, not showing visual editor's edit tab, bug 69779 (noting 'requires javascript' where necessary in the beta tab).

I hope to succeed in making this a tracking bug for enforcing the above-quoted design for the "no JS enabled" case.

Version: 1.24rc
Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 3:32 AM
• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-General, Tracking-Neverending.
• bzimport set Reference to bz69845.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Aug 21 2014, 10:15 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Aug 21 2014, 10:19 AM

gryllida wrote:

Which is probably stupid (visualeditor already does not show the edit tab when js is off; I misread earlier)

Aklapper added a comment.Aug 21 2014, 11:34 AM

[There are probably quite some open tickets already that could be marked as blocking this one]

• Mattflaschen-WMF added a comment.Aug 22 2014, 3:07 AM

It certainly should not expose dead links (e.g. it would be bad if you saw a VE edit link, and clicking it did nothing). We're fixing a similar issue in a non-deployed feature right now, in fact.

My understanding is that with bug 69779, you are requesting that "this feature requires js" is shown especially when JS is disabled. This makes sense, and the current intended behavior (as far as I can tell from reading the code) is that it shows only when JS is disabled. As far as I can tell, it *does* show when JS is disabled. You have not replied there to my latest comment and screenshot.

There is a glitch where it *also* shows when JS is enabled (bug 69823) in some cases.

Note, I don't think this preference behavior is clearly described by "not expose any features". We want to make them aware (could be described as "expose") of JS-only features, but make it clear such feature can not be used without JS.

Tweaking the title and adding a depends accordingly.

• Phabricator_maintenance removed a parent task: T4007: [DO NOT USE] Tracking bug [superseded by #Tracking].Jul 28 2016, 2:33 AM
Liuxinyu970226 moved this task from Tag to Transition completed / Archived on the Tracking-Neverending board.Mar 21 2019, 10:31 AM
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