Re: [Wikitech-l] Render with a slow process

2020-04-28 Thread Brian Wolff
Can you be a bit more concrete in what you are thinking of. In general i think most users would find it unacceptable if part of the page was only available after some slow (<1 min) amount of time after the page rendered. The closest things i can think of to this is image rendering (and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Render with a slow process

2020-04-28 Thread Thiemo Kreuz
To be honest I don't fully understand the question. What you wrote sounds like we have something like this already. Or did I get this wrong? On a very high "user experience" level unrelated to MediaWiki I do have a suggestion: You could do it similar to how "like" features in social media clients

[Wikitech-l] Render with a slow process

2020-04-25 Thread John Erling Blad
Slow process, fast rendering Imagine someone edits a page, and that editing hits a very slow tag-function of some kind. You want to respond fast with something readable, some kind of temporary page until the slow process has finished. Do you chose to reuse what you had from the last revision, if