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Better spinner icon for jquery.spinner.js
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Description

The media viewer throbber in the BetaFeatures extension appears to be low resolution and looks kind of bad. Screenshot attached.

See Also: T56814

Screenshot of throbber from media viewer in BetaFeatures:

Screen_Shot_2014-01-05_at_5.42.51_PM.png (822×531 px, 22 KB)

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:20 AM
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It's called a spinner in the code. :-)

Mark: did this get fixed? I think the throbber/spinner may be gone now (I looked at mediawiki.org briefly and it didn't seem to be there).

It got "fixed" but only in that we don't use this library anymore. In core, we should fix the bug more resolutely by using APNG or just a properly alpha'd GIF. Test on a variety of coloured backgrounds to make sure.

Note: The library in question is resources/jquery/jquery.spinner.js - the files that need changing are resources/jquery/images/spinner.gif and resources/jquery/images/spinner-large.gif - just so you know where to go :)

[[mw:User:Splarka/Throbber]]

If this bug report is only about MediaWiki core's generic throbber, this is probably a duplicate.

Created attachment 14304
Another kind of spinner

Was wondering if we could go for another kind of spinner ? Not necessarily this.

Attached:

spinner (32×32 px, 6 KB)

Oops, sorry. Just wanted to rename it.

Change 116103 had a related patch set uploaded by Deepali:
Add better spinner icon for jquery.spinner.js

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116103

Change 116225 had a related patch set uploaded by Deepali:
Add vector svg animated spinner icon

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116225

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The patches have been abandoned. Someone could pick up the work.

Jdforrester-WMF lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Lowest.Jan 30 2015, 5:09 AM

No-one's working on this, and there's no urgency.

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Change 187737 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarkTraceur):
high-resolution spinner-icon

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/187737

Patch-For-Review

Change 187737 abandoned by Bartosz Dziewoński:
high-resolution spinner-icon

Reason:
No response from uploader; does not fix the linked bug.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/187737

Change 223586 had a related patch set uploaded (by Brion VIBBER):
Hi-DPI spinner using CSS animation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/223586

Change 255029 had a related patch set uploaded (by Brion VIBBER):
Hi-DPI spinner using 2x-density animated GIF

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/255029

Change 223586 abandoned by Brion VIBBER:
Hi-DPI spinner using CSS animation

Reason:
Abandoning in favor of simpler I2af30082

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/223586

Change 255029 abandoned by Ori.livneh:
Hi-DPI spinner using 2x-density animated GIF

Reason:
obsoleted by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/498884/

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/255029