Change 666680 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sbisson; owner: Sbisson):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Images for Wikipedia Preview

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/666680

https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-preview/pull/95

Will the JS itself also be hosted there? If not, you may want to serve it from wherever the script is so that you don't end up in a situation where you can't ever resize, rename or remove any file there ever just in case something somewhere uses a different version of the script.

Note that CSS supports relative path names (unlike JS) so that would naturally work and the directory would still be portable to upload wherever (e.g. github demo, official hotlink, or third-party embed selfhost).

@Krinkle that's an interesting idea. We've been promoting 3rd party self host so far but recently we've been talking about reducing friction as much as possible for partners so this would really help.

We're committed to backward compatibility so I'm not too worried about them using newer versions.

Would serving the script from here also cache it for 1 year?

I did not provide all context above.

We've been promoting self host. That was fine with the images inside the bundle since it's a single file but with the images extracted we cannot advice the partners to host all images and make sure it's all coming from the same path. That would be too much friction. But serving all of it from wp/static would be great as long as the script is not cached for too long without asking the partners to change the URL they are using.

In T273674#6857861, @SBisson wrote:

I did not provide all context above.

We've been promoting self host. That was fine with the images inside the bundle since it's a single file but with the images extracted we cannot advice the partners to host all images and make sure it's all coming from the same path.

I'm not sure I follow. I assume the icon paths are referenced from a CSS file, not a JavaScript file. With CSS, image references are always resolved by browsers relative to the stylesheet, not relative to the host document. As such, there is no configuration requires. This would only be a problem if the icons are directly referenced by the JavaScript code, but I would recommend against that both for configuration simplicity but also for performance. You'd want a CSS class to reference the image from its style rules.

As such, providing a ZIP with a JS, CSS files, and icon image all in the same directory, should make for a simple configuration-free installation. If the consumer were to deploy these through some kind of framework or pipeline they use that combines these with other unrelated assets, then this should still be no problem. To my knowledge every bundler, even those that are decades old, have generally always correctly interpreted paths referenced in stylesheets to remap or otherwise transofrm those URLs as needed. If they did not, then this would likely also break icons the vendor uses in their own code.

Change 666680 abandoned by Sbisson:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Images for Wikipedia Preview

Reason:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/666680