User talk:TheDJ/popups.js

Rewrite plan:

• get rid of last action=raw usage. Replace with api revision calls.
  • √ preview
    • √ oldid preview
    • √ red links
    • √ section previews
    • √ empty pages
  • √ diff
    • √ Combine two revid requests
    • √ double check date
    • √ fix the revision link for the dates
    • √ test all diff variants
• √ convert everything to formatversion=2
• √ convert to new continue style
• once everything is an api call, start getting rid of storing and handling the text response, and instead pass and store the json object phab:T178670
• get info from api, instead of from download
  • √ get last modified from api response
• get info from api, instead of from wikitext
  • get redirect information from api response
  • get disambig state from api response
  • get size from api response
  • get category count from api response ?
  • get link count from api response ?
  • get image count from api response ?
  • get primary image from page images api
• consolidate the separate parts of the popups, into a single api call per popup, instead of firing multiple api requests when that is not needed.
  • user info and user page
  • image info and image page
• do we still need the downloader caching layer ? maxage enough?
• replace the downloader class with mediawiki.api (so we get promises, token refresh etc etc). phab:T138901
  • But remember downloadsinprogress, used for aborts.
• get rid of the cookie class phab:T178506
• replace instaview with action=parse or action=extracts phab:T138803
• split off diff library, lazy load it (or maybe reuse wikEd's diff lib?)

Bugs:

• Fix most recent edit (from title)
• When we have a link with no title, instead of blocking, use the curid and fetch the title from the api instead.
• Overflow of contributions table of the 350px width
• Hovering what links here in popups menu doesn't trigger preview
• Add separator to popupPreview# views, for api requests like what links here (backlinks).
• Add 'Non-existing page' string when previewing redlinks
• autoedit is not compatible with syntax highlight phab:T178871
• getlastcontribs and sincemyedit actions are practically broken, as they try to open a new page async from the click action, which will be blocked by the popup blocker of most browsers.

Questions:

• What's the use of pending popup tasks ? Can we get rid of it. Seems to be used to determine if a reset is required or something of popup ?
• Maybe use slightly wider popup size ?
• language error format

Features:

• article badges phab:169115
• interlanguage previews ?
• local storage settings
• preference panel, like twinkle has
• add language of popup content to the div
• add indicator for drag handle to popup (make whole view draggable by default ?)