Standardize the naming of Echo's "panel"
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	Aug 25 2015, 6:40 AM

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We've decided to use "panel". (The others are inaccurate or ambiguous)
We now need to standardize the existing usages of the words "flyout", "popup", and "overlay", and "dropdown", in

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Echo's notification popup thingy is called the "overlay" or "flyout" inconsistently in different places including code and documentation. Decide upon one, and update everything to use that.

km@km-tp ~/p/v/m/e/Echo> ack flyout --php --js -c -h
47
km@km-tp ~/p/v/m/e/Echo> ack overlay --php --js -c -h
144

Ready, set, bikeshed.

20 flyout, 3 popup, 8 overlay, 0 panel in https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?filter=&action=proofread&language=qqq&group=ext-echo

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Legoktm triaged this task as Lowest priority.Aug 25 2015, 6:41 AM

I am not sure we should reflect either of those in the API (as we discussed before) the API should probably output the data necessary, and the front end should build either a popup, a flyout, a dancing div or a special page.

That said, if we call it anything, we should call it a "popup" to make it match OOUI's naming.

If you're migrating it to OOUI, then not 'overlay' please, as that has a different meaning for OOUI widgets (it's a thing you pass to dropdown menus inside dialogs to make them work :P).

matmarex unsubscribed.Aug 25 2015, 8:02 AM

Popup is fine. Agreed it should not be in the API response.

The documentation all calls it a flyout

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_navigation#Styles_of_Web_Navigation it could either be a "drop down menu" or a "flyout menu".
Popup seems to be Apple-specific, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop-down_list ?

"Popup" would be a little bit (but not badly) ambiguous with Navpopups and Extension:Popups (Hovercards)

So, +1 for "flyout"

• DannyH moved this task from Untriaged to Team discussion on the Collaboration-Team-Triage board.Aug 26 2015, 11:20 PM

• Quiddity renamed this task from Figure out whether the Echo notification popup is called a "flyout" or "overlay" and make usage consistent to Figure out whether the Echo notification popup is called a "panel" or "flyout" or "overlay" or "popup" and make usage consistent.Dec 30 2015, 8:52 PM

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Standardize the naming of Echo's "panel"
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