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Improve mw.notifications and possibly combine with postEdit
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mw.notifications are currently really small and honestly hard to notice on Desktop. Additionally, we have a second notification system for postEdit (and it differs in visual style for a researched / ab-tested reason).

Both systems could use a bit of a visual make-over to bring them into 2015-16.
Additionally, the two systems should probably be combined/share an api, to make it easier to target them on mobile and other different skins. Another possible usecase is for user-user messaging and other 'in page' website notifications that we currently do not yet provide but have been discussed.

The notifications could be improved to have icons like checkmarks or X's, templates, positionable and to have different 'attention' levels towards users.

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Sn1per created this task.Jun 24 2015, 2:12 PM
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Sn1per added a comment.Aug 2 2015, 7:56 PM

Color themes would be especially useful since notifications have been used to replace successboxes, errorboxes, etc. (e.g. in T19496) and green, red, etc. color themes would make the notifications more like the old messageboxes, allowing them to quickly convey success or failure of an operation.

Sn1per added a comment.Aug 6 2015, 7:11 PM

Example of a notification with .successbox colors:

green-mw.notify.png (133×349 px, 4 KB)

Sn1per added a comment.Aug 7 2015, 9:30 PM

The error/warning box on top of Special:CreateAccount (and other similar pages) typically occurs on top of the text boxes, but if they were replaced by notifications, then the warnings would appear on the top right, where they may receive less attention. I'm not sure where to put the notifications though where they won't obstruct any content.

Sn1per lowered the priority of this task from Low to Lowest.Sep 28 2015, 1:01 AM
Sn1per raised the priority of this task from Lowest to Low.
matmarex added a subtask: T42307: mw.notification Usability Improvements.Oct 27 2015, 10:39 PM
matmarex added a parent task: T58313: Make postedit messages ("Your edit was saved.") and mw.notification messages ("The page has been added to your watchlist.") look the same.
Sn1per removed Sn1per as the assignee of this task.Oct 27 2015, 10:53 PM
Krinkle mentioned this in T66435: Restore ability to hide postedit confirmation.Mar 10 2016, 10:06 PM
Esanders closed this task as a duplicate of T58313: Make postedit messages ("Your edit was saved.") and mw.notification messages ("The page has been added to your watchlist.") look the same.Apr 10 2017, 12:08 PM
Jdforrester-WMF removed a subtask: T42307: mw.notification Usability Improvements.Feb 23 2024, 12:59 AM
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