On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) We need some JavaScript API for using templates (in current form > all we have is a standard way to ship templates from the server to the > frontend). Well, Mantle does have a basic template.add(), get(), and render() API. It seems OK. Before we know the API is right I would like to see proof-of-concept template compilation. Handlebars templates can/could be compiled in advance at commit-time, during a build process, on the server at request time, or on the client. Developers should not have to change code for this. ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64735 for handlebars.) > Trevor is working on a template widget for oojs which will > make this possible > Great, though I don't understand what this is. Is this a specific widget that uses a specifc template, or an "platform" widget that handles templating for other OOUI widgets? > 2) We need a standard template language > 3) Better namespacing for templates - we identified that we will need > to find better ways of uniquely identifying templates [3]. > > We questioned whether point 2 should be blocking, as we recognised > that even if we decide to standardise on Knockoff in future, it should > be trivial to write a script that converts Hogan/Handlebars template > language to Knockoff. The Mantle ResourceLoader module in current form > is template agnostic and currently works with both Hogan and > Handlebars, so in theory should make it easy to transition from one > template language to another. > > On this basis, I think the next step would be for the oojs development > team to get a template widget up that can be used by Mantle. > Great, again I'm confused :) FWIW the pressing need of several teams is a dialog component with the Agora appearance to replace homebrew and jQuery UI dialogs. As I understand it, besides VE of course Media Viewer has an OOUI dialog in its "Use this file" pop-up. -- =S Page Features engineer _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
