Summary: Ref T7014.
Test Plan: changed the conpherence title from the column. since i can't get scrolling to work, i inspect the dom to verify the title change transaction showed up properly
Reviewers: epriestley, chad
Reviewed By: epriestley
Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley
Maniphest Tasks: T7014
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12002
Summary:
Ref T7014. This diff addresses
- getting it to be the right set of options
- add participant
- view in conpherence
- close window
- making those options work
- make it so if you are on /conpherence/ you can't toggle the durable column
Test Plan: inspected dom via chrome tools and found last transaction. added a participant and inspected the single new transactin added for accuracy. used view in conpherence action to view in conpherence. used close window action to close window
Reviewers: chad, epriestley
Reviewed By: epriestley
Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley
Maniphest Tasks: T7014
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D11991
Summary:
Ref T7014. This hooks up the durable column such that when you open it up it loads your most recent Conpherence. You can then switch amongst the various widgets and stuff and everything works nicely.
Except...
- scroll bar does not work
- also doesn't work at HEAD when I add a ton of text to the UI with no changes? (wrapped $copy in array_fill(0, 1000, $copy))
- "widget selector" does not collapse when you select something else
- this part wasn't really specified so I used the aphlict dropdown stuff. didn't want to keep working on that if this was the wrong UI choice
- can not edit title
- do we still want that to be done by clicking on the title, which pops a dialogue?
- can not add participants or calendar events
- what should this UI be? maybe just a button on the top for "participants" and a button on the bottom for calendar? both on top?
- this is not pixel perfect to the mock or two I've seen around. Aside from generally being bad at that, I definitely didn't get the name + timestamps formatting correctly, because the standard DOM of that has timestamp FIRST which appears second due to a "float right". Seemed like a lot of special-casing for what might not even be that important in the UI so I punted. (And again, there's likely many unknown ways in which this isn't pixel perfect)
There's also code quality issues
- `ConpherenceWidgetConfigConstants` is hopefully temporary or at least gets more sleek as we keep progressing here
- copied some CSS from main Conpherence app
- DOM structure is pretty different
- there's some minor CSS tweaks too given the different width (not to mention the DOM structure being different)
- copied some JS from behavior-pontificate.js to sync threads relative to aphlict updates
- JS in general is like a better version of existing JS; these should collapse I'd hope?
- maybe the aphlict-behavior-dropdown change was badsauce?
...but all that said, this definitely feels really nice and I feel like adding stuff is going to be really easy compared to how normal Conpherence is.
Also includes a bonus bug fix - we now correctly update participation. The user would encounter this issue if they were in a conpherence that got some updates and then they went to a different page; they would have unread status for the messages that were ajax'd in. This patch fixes that by making sure we mark participation up to date with the proper transaction in all cases.
Test Plan: hit "\" to invoke the column and saw nice loading UI and my latest conpherence load. sent messages and verified they received A-OK by looking in DOM console. toggled various widges and verified they rendered correctly. opened up a second browser with a second user on the thread, sent a message, and it was received in a nice asynchronous fashion
Reviewers: chad, epriestley
Reviewed By: epriestley
Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley
Maniphest Tasks: T7014
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D11968
Summary: This was missed in a recent rename.
Test Plan: No more console exception.
Reviewers: btrahan, chad
Reviewed By: chad
Subscribers: epriestley
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D11916
Summary:
Ref T2086. Ref T7014. With the persistent column, there is significant value in retaining chrome state through navigation events, because the user may have a lot of state in the chat window (scroll position, text selection, room juggling, partially entered text, etc). We can do this by capturing navigation events and faking them with Javascript.
(This can also improve performance, albeit slightly, and I believe there are better approaches to tackle performance any problems which exist with the chrome in many cases).
At Facebook, this system was "Photostream" in photos and then "Quickling" in general, and the technical cost of the system was //staggering//. I am loathe to pursue it again. However:
- Browsers are less junky now, and we target a smaller set of browsers. A large part of the technical cost of Quickling was the high complexity of emulating nagivation events in IE, where we needed to navigate a hidden iframe to make history entries. All desktop browsers which we might want to use this system on support the History API (although this prototype does not yet implement it).
- Javelin and Phabricator's architecture are much cleaner than Facebook's was. A large part of the technical cost of Quickling was inconsistency, inlined `onclick` handlers, and general lack of coordination and abstraction. We will have //some// of this, but "correctly written" behaviors are mostly immune to it by design, and many of Javelin's architectural decisions were influenced by desire to avoid issues we encountered building this stuff for Facebook.
- Some of the primitives which Quickling required (like loading resources over Ajax) have existed in a stable state in our codebase for a year or more, and adoption of these primitives was trivial and uneventful (vs a huge production at Facebook).
- My hubris is bolstered by recent success with WebSockets and JX.Scrollbar, both of which I would have assessed as infeasibly complex to develop in this project a few years ago.
To these points, the developer cost to prototype Photostream was several weeks; the developer cost to prototype this was a bit less than an hour. It is plausible to me that implementing and maintaining this system really will be hundreds of times less complex than it was at Facebook.
Test Plan:
My plan for this and D11497 is:
- Get them in master.
- Some secret key / relatively-hidden preference activates the column.
- Quicksand activates //only// when the column is open.
- We can use column + quicksand for a long period of time (i.e., over the course of Conpherence v2 development) and hammer out the long tail of issues.
- When it derps up, you just hide the column and you're good to go.
Reviewers: btrahan, chad
Reviewed By: chad
Subscribers: epriestley
Maniphest Tasks: T2086, T7014
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D11507
Summary:
Ref T7014. This is very rough and not hooked up to anything, but gets a couple of the layout pieces in place so we can (a) see that it looks like it'll kinda work; (b) look for problematic interactions and (c) you can fix my mangling of your design.
NOTE: Press "\" to toggle the column.
Test Plan:
Feels pretty good to me?
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Reviewers: btrahan, chad
Reviewed By: chad
Subscribers: epriestley
Maniphest Tasks: T7014
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D11497
