Promote fontchanger to stable (in feature branch)
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	Jdlrobson
	Aug 17 2015, 7:47 PM

Description

Background:

In order to provide a better reading experience through a large set of users, we want to be able to allow users to increase and decrease the font size of articles.

In mobile web beta in the settings menu there is a font changer which allows the user to increase font size via JavaScript.

Acceptance criteria

font changer is promoted to stable (turning on beta does not provide access to the feature) in the feature branch 'specialpages'
font changer appears in "Settings" tab separate from beta

Additional notes

Review notes (which are likely to be outdated) in T109363
Do not deploy this until T169369: Change font size controls to use small, regular, large and extra large buckets and additional QA is complete

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Promote expand all sections and fontchanger to stable	mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend	specialpages	+2 -2

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T158181 Aim for workflow equivalence for MediaWiki on desktop and mobile web
Declined	None	T67078 Allow feedback for mobile beta features like Desktop
Resolved	• Jhernandez	T104319 [GOAL]: Feature flag features on MobileFrontend
Resolved	None	T141087 [EPIC] Add feature management
Resolved	ovasileva	T67079 [Epic] Show what features are included in Beta
Resolved	ovasileva	T182217 Deploy `specialpages` feature branch (promote new Special:MobileOptions, fontchanger etc)
Resolved	• Nirzar	T109364 Promote fontchanger to stable (in feature branch)
Resolved	Jdlrobson	T100729 Promote 'font changer' to beta
Duplicate	None	T109363 Improve font changer implementation that is currently in beta.
Resolved	• Nirzar	T169369 Change font size controls to use small, regular, large and extra large buckets
Resolved	Volker_E	T180730 Dropdown widgets menu inferior on mobile - should use native `select` element for better mobile compatibility

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Jdlrobson created this task.Aug 17 2015, 7:47 PM

Jdlrobson raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.

Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)

Jdlrobson added a project: MobileFrontend.

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Jdlrobson added subtasks: T100729: Promote 'font changer' to beta, T109363: Improve font changer implementation that is currently in beta..Aug 17 2015, 7:47 PM

• Jhernandez reopened subtask T100729: Promote 'font changer' to beta as Open.Aug 19 2015, 9:27 AM

• Jhernandez triaged this task as Medium priority.Aug 19 2015, 5:12 PM

• Jhernandez set Security to None.

• Jhernandez closed subtask T100729: Promote 'font changer' to beta as Resolved.Aug 21 2015, 4:32 PM

Jdlrobson added a project: Epic.Dec 17 2015, 8:34 PM

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bd808 added a project: Reading-Web-Planning.Dec 23 2015, 12:09 AM

Jdlrobson moved this task from To classify to Backlog on the Reading-Web-Planning board.May 17 2016, 6:14 PM

Jdlrobson edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Design); removed Reading-Web-Planning.Nov 14 2016, 11:48 AM

Jdlrobson merged a task: T50946: Add font size adjustment feature.Apr 13 2017, 6:10 PM

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Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 18 2017, 9:57 PM

Jdlrobson merged a task: T109363: Improve font changer implementation that is currently in beta..

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Jdlrobson mentioned this in T67079: [Epic] Show what features are included in Beta.Jun 29 2017, 6:17 PM

ovasileva updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 30 2017, 9:35 AM

ovasileva moved this task from Needs analysis to Next up on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Design) board.

ovasileva added a parent task: T67079: [Epic] Show what features are included in Beta.

• Nirzar created subtask T169369: Change font size controls to use small, regular, large and extra large buckets.Jun 30 2017, 9:16 PM

• Nirzar moved this task from Next up to Designing/discussing right now on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Design) board.

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Note: T169379 is blocker for this task.

• Nirzar moved this task from Design to Epics/Goals on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived board.Jul 7 2017, 10:54 PM

• Nirzar edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog-Archived; removed Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Design).

Jdlrobson removed a project: MobileFrontend.Jul 13 2017, 5:57 PM

The fontchanger currently changes the font of all paragraphs. It however doesn't change the font size of image captions and headings e.g. h2

@Nirzar is this intentional?

not sure. who designed this? we don't have any documentation by whoever worked on it I guess.

if I have to take a call on this. I would say we should change all font sizes except for H2 because H2 is bit of a UI element as well as content element and being interactive, it would be odd to have space taken up by it on screen. specially for long H2s

It was a volunteer effort. Web has had nothing to do with this except code review. It would sense to actually talk through this feature and what impact it should have one the ui before commiting to promoting it! For instance it doesn't apply to overlays!

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ovasileva moved this task from Epics/Goals to Upcoming on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived board.Dec 4 2017, 3:22 PM

Jdlrobson mentioned this in T169369: Change font size controls to use small, regular, large and extra large buckets.Dec 5 2017, 12:30 AM

ovasileva updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 6 2017, 5:37 PM

ovasileva updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 6 2017, 5:40 PM

Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 6 2017, 5:41 PM

ovasileva renamed this task from [EPIC] Promote fontchanger to stable to Promote fontchanger to stable (in feature branch).Dec 6 2017, 5:43 PM

ovasileva added a parent task: T182217: Deploy `specialpages` feature branch (promote new Special:MobileOptions, fontchanger etc).

ovasileva removed a parent task: T67079: [Epic] Show what features are included in Beta.Dec 6 2017, 5:46 PM

MBinder_WMF removed a project: Epic.Dec 6 2017, 5:48 PM

ovasileva set the point value for this task to 2.Dec 6 2017, 5:48 PM

Jdlrobson added a project: Mobile-Web-Settings.Dec 7 2017, 10:18 PM

Change 396284 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; owner: Jdlrobson):
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@specialpages] Promote expand all sections and fontchanger to stable

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/396284

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 7 2017, 10:47 PM

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Jdlrobson moved this task from Upcoming to 2017-18 Q2 on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived board.Dec 11 2017, 5:41 PM

ovasileva moved this task from To Do to Blocked on Others on the Readers-Web-Kanbanana-Board-Old board.Dec 13 2017, 6:34 PM

blocked on T169369: Change font size controls to use small, regular, large and extra large buckets

Quiddity unsubscribed.Dec 14 2017, 12:05 AM

Change 396284 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@specialpages] Promote expand all sections and fontchanger to stable

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/396284

Jdlrobson moved this task from Blocked on Others to Ready for Signoff on the Readers-Web-Kanbanana-Board-Old board.Dec 20 2017, 3:20 AM