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• Server sends HTML of board – header, topics, posts

• Browser then makes in-page API calls to add topics, reply, etc.

UNDER THE COVERS: NEW TEMPLATING

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• Ad hoc PHP outputs HTML

• API returns big chunks of HTML to browser

THE OLD WAY...

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• Server assembles data (e.g. topic.post[3].author=”Shahyar”)

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• Server PHP renders a template with the info

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• Browser gets the same info, JS renders the same template with the info ( Z O M G ! )

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Works, performance win, uses “Mantle” to share with MobileFrontend

But not long-term WMF standard RfC templating approach.

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Iteration of mediawiki.ui “Agora” style

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• Apply Progressive Regressive Constructive Destructive links

• New thin, quiet, and sleeper buttons

• Webfont WikiFont-Glyphs for icons

• New tooltip & drop-down menu

• Patches for core

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ON THE COVERS

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• Sort by Newest topics or

Recently active topics

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• Remembers your last

sorting option as a

hidden user preference

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NEW FEATURE: SORT TOPICS

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Core of the feature: Meaningful interactions that support collaboration.

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Q1 GOAL: NEVER MISS A MESSAGE

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