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Chad Little
ac8e11359d Remove 'full-display' setting from Conpherence, spruce up search results
Summary: This removes 'full-display', 'minimal-display' from Conpherence, which I recall was because we had 2 UIs for column and regular chat. I'm also tossing in slightly nicer search results, with a link to the actual message and the full date shown for context.

Test Plan: Post a message in mobile, tablet, full conpherence, and in durable column. Clean up UI in durable column. Do a search in Full UI, click on result date, get taken to the message... usually. My test data is a little wonky, but I think this works most of the time.

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D16710
2016-10-17 15:53:55 -07:00
Chad Little
55a56c09e7 Always reset scroll after durable column is maximized
Summary: When the durable column is re-opened, scroll user to latest message. Though later we should scroll them to the last read.

Test Plan: Minimize window, reload page, pop up window, see proper scroll position.

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D16649
2016-10-02 20:32:43 -07:00
Chad Little
45af6d7c0e Set body classes via Quicksand config
Summary: Sends and stores additional body classes at the page level. Removes old ones, sets new ones.

Test Plan: home -> application search -> colored workboard -> config -> home with persistent chat open and minimized.

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D16646
2016-10-01 16:36:28 -07:00
Chad Little
2f2126ecce Add 'Persist Chat' option in Conpherence notification menu
Summary: This exposes the chat window to a larger audience beside people who accidentaly hit `\`.

Test Plan:
Lots of clicks and reloads.

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Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D16643
2016-10-01 11:36:05 -07:00
Chad Little
6d82fcc6d7 Allow Durable Column to be minimized
Summary: Add ability to minimize durable column

Test Plan:
Shrink and Grow, reload page, see stickyness...

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Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D16638
2016-09-30 20:24:18 +00:00
Chad Little
95d1749566 Convert Durable Column to popup chat in footer
Summary: This feels pretty reasonable with little effort, and I think I'd use it more than the full column.

Test Plan:
Chat a lot on various pages.... still some quicksand quirks around various pages.

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Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: scp, Korvin

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D16627
2016-09-29 10:08:14 -07:00
Chad Little
e902fc0e2a Move Tablet breakpoint from 768 -> 920
Summary: Bumping this up higher since two column views get extra tight fast below 900 px. This felt most correct to me, dialing it back from first attempt at 960. Mostly I don't want to ever accidentally trigger it when I'm on the 12" MacBook. Ref T10926

Test Plan: Durable Column, Workboards, Dashboards, Tasks.

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: avivey, Korvin

Maniphest Tasks: T10926

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D15960
2016-05-21 12:11:27 -07:00
Bob Trahan
818fcf0035 Conpherence - fix durable column message duplicating bug
Summary: Fixes T6713. Though I've said that before. =D Looks like this handler wasn't upgraded earlier and was still updating the DOM; removing the DOM updating code and let the central spot handle everything and this works fine.

Test Plan: open up two browsers with durable column on same room. send messages in browser a and observe 1 copy of each message showing up in browser b. send messages in browswer b and observe one copy in browser a. browser a was chrome and browser b was firefox.

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: epriestley, Korvin

Maniphest Tasks: T6713

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D13214
2015-06-08 14:13:23 -07:00
Bob Trahan
6c049d06ce Conpherence - change message rendering logic to eradicate possibility of duplicates
Summary:
Fixes T6713. Before this diff, we would update the DOM when various requests came back, but the logic to erase race conditions proved too tricky for me to get right. Instead, change the algorithm up and keep a set of transaction ids around per thread. When its time to update the transactions, sort the list of ids and just render the whole darn set again.

To make this work, this ends up adding transacton ids to fake transactons like "show older" and date markers. This is able to work by using a float sort and giving these transactions ids that are .5 from being an integer and in the right place numerically.

Test Plan: for durable column, clicked show older and it worked. sent a message and it worked. for main view, clicked show older and it worked. sent a message and it worked.

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T6713

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12819
2015-05-13 11:06:54 -07:00
Bob Trahan
048eb6cf61 Conpherence - make show older messages work correctly in durable column
Summary:
Fixes T8009. This was basically moving the behavior from conpherence full behavior menu into the ConpherenceThreadManager so it could be re used in the durable column.

The durable column bit has no special styles - its just a link - but it seems to work well enough. I think it could be removed altogether if / when we add some automagical scrolling back into history stuff.

Test Plan: loaded up a conpherence in a durable column and used 'show older messages' successfully. loaded up a conpherence in regular view mid transaction and used show older and show newer successfully

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T8009

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12816
2015-05-12 14:44:25 -07:00
Bob Trahan
8056719eee Refine durable column class toggling
Summary: don't bother with margin class if column isn't visible. Ref T8151.

Test Plan:
using chrome with trackpad

- loaded home with toggled off column - noted no margin class erroneously applied
- toggled column off and on - correct
- loaded home with toggled on column - correct
- toggled column off and on - correct

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T8151

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12795
2015-05-11 13:50:44 -07:00
epriestley
c94bd8e4f2 Stop using JX.Scrollbar for main page content
Summary:
Ref T8151. This is option (5). It needs a few adjustments but feels pretty good. Major issues are:

  - Without a mouse, the scrollbars overlap by default, so we //must// move the column off the right margin.
  - Scrolling sometimes "bleeds" between the chat vs the main frame in a way that's not as discrete as the old framed content, but feels generally reasonable to me.

If we pursue this, I'd plan to make these additional changes:

  - Move the panel away from the right margin only if the page scrollbars are zero-width (i.e., in OSX trackpad mode).
  - Fix the notch in the upper right corner when the chat is moved away from the right margin.
  - Probably remove the body "overflow-y: scroll" on Conpherence and Workboards.
  - Update the resizing code to deal with 300px vs 315px widths.
  - We can probably clean up some JX.Scrollbar "main panel" code.

Here's the "bad" case, where I've visually separated the column to provide room for a scrollbar. This isn't ideal, but looks and feels OK to me:

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Test Plan:
  - Tried Firefox, Chrome, Safari, with and without a mouse.
  - Tried normal Conpherence.

Reviewers: btrahan, chad

Reviewed By: btrahan

Subscribers: avivey, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T8151

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12789
2015-05-11 12:02:00 -07:00
Bob Trahan
2fab72d43b Quicksand - update title while navigating about
Summary: Fixes T7744. Also fixes a bug where we were copying the response object erroneously; that's not necessary to move around since we cleanly initialize it for each load

Test Plan: from user profile, clicked feed tab and saw new title. clicked calendar tab and saw new title. clicked back and saw feed title and page render.

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7744

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12487
2015-04-21 11:01:05 -07:00
Bob Trahan
4d5badeec0 Quicksand - provide some plumbing for fancier updates
Summary: Ref D12448. Ref T7573. This changes quicksand up a bit so rather than caching just rendered HTML we also cache the initial response from the server. We also fire off a quicksand-redraw event which will let things like the page objects for notifications update correctly while using Quicksand (see D12448).

Test Plan: loaded up /p/btrahan/  Clicked the UI elements to navigate to various profile views up to maniphest. clicked back until back at /p/btrahan/ and it worked. clicked forward until all the way back to maniphest and it worked. clicked back 2x, then clicked new links, then back and it worked

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7573

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12449
2015-04-20 15:44:14 -07:00
Bob Trahan
b14ca38940 Conpherence - improve stack re: non-update updates
Summary:
Fixes T7761. Fixes T7318.

When we send an empty message to the server, pretend its just a request to load the page. Make load a bit smarter such that if we don't get back any transactions, rather than error like the fool, just send down to the client the notion of a 'non_update'. Instrument the client to just turn off the appropriate loading state, etc for a non update.

T7318 is a tricky beast since we don't know exactly how to reproduce it but if / when it occurs again it would be some other bizarre application behavior maybe? We won't be getting the execption anymore, that's for sure.

Test Plan: removed code in `ConpherenceThreadManager.sendMessage` that protects against sending empty messages. sent empty messages (non updates) like whoa and everything worked on both durable column and main column view. re-added the code in `ConpherenceThreadManager.sendMessage` and noted empty messages did not send while any text including a space sent up nicely

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7318, T7761

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12339
2015-04-09 15:07:12 -07:00
epriestley
ba10e8ed41 Reduce cleverness of tablet breakpoint adjustment
Summary:
Fixes T7713. 2 much math X.X

Specifically, we could end up with some nonsense widths here (smaller than the phone breakpoint) with an initially-hidden column.

Test Plan: Hit tablet breakpoint with column open and closed.

Reviewers: chad, btrahan

Reviewed By: btrahan

Subscribers: epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7713

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12225
2015-03-31 13:44:49 -07:00
epriestley
69020af0c7 Make column show/hide behaviors a little simpler
Summary: Ref T7062. The previous fix caused an extra, unnecessary thread load on mobile. Make this code a bit simpler and fix the unnecessary load.

Test Plan: No more load on mobile.

Reviewers: btrahan, chad

Reviewed By: chad

Subscribers: epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7062

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12196
2015-03-29 07:27:06 -07:00
epriestley
a48b486344 Fix a race condition with the chat column
Summary:
Ref T7062. When we load a thread, we always show the column, even if it has been closed between the time we sent the request and when we're processing the response.

Normally this isn't a big deal, but it can specifically show up on mobile.

(This load also shouldn't be happening at all, but I'll fix that separately.)

Test Plan: Mobile no longer shows the column after it loads.

Reviewers: btrahan, chad

Reviewed By: chad

Subscribers: epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7062

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12195
2015-03-28 15:46:13 -07:00
epriestley
95efd50470 Remove stray debugging code
Auditors: chad
2015-03-28 07:14:14 -07:00
epriestley
8c1a1312e8 Improve column device behaviors
Summary:
Fixes T7062. When the column is open, we only want to consider the screen width which is avilable for content when computing responsive breakpoints.

Specificially, if you have a 1000px wide browser window (normally "desktop") but the column is open (300px) so you only have 700px free for content (normally "tablet"), we should drop to the tablet breakpoint. This lets you have a narrow column of "tablet" content next to the chat column, instead of a really squished column of "desktop" contnet.

This also means the chat column can't directly use JX.Device to hide itself.

Test Plan: Resized screen with column open, saw content go from Desktop + Column -> Tablet + Column -> Tablet -> Mobile.

Reviewers: btrahan, chad

Reviewed By: chad

Subscribers: epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7062

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12189
2015-03-28 06:54:23 -07:00
Bob Trahan
e4b7263bf8 Conpherence - Differentiate audience of Threads/Rooms with icon
Summary:
Fixes T7629 plus an un filed bug that's breaking creating new threads since we need to add participants EVEN EARLIER than we were doing it now that policy is actually enforced.

Back to the main thrust of this, there is one UI corner case - in the main view if you go from 1:1 to 1:1:1 (i.e. add a 3rd recipient, or Nth in a row) the icon only updates on page reload. I figure this will get sorted out at a later refactor as we make the client better / share more code with durable column.

One other small behavioral oddity is in the main view sometime we start loading with no conpherence. in that case, rather than show some incorrect icon, we show no icon (and "no title") and then things change at load. Seems okay-ish.

Finally, @chad - the CSS is a very work-man-like "use the built in stuff you can specify from PHP" so I'm sure it needs some love.

Test Plan: made all sorts of rooms and threads and liked the icons. noted smooth loading action as i switched around

Reviewers: chad, epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, chad, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7629

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12163
2015-03-26 12:24:29 -07:00
Bob Trahan
441112c8e2 Conpherence - fix a typo
Summary: this typo broke (at least) renaming the thread from the durable column.

Test Plan: renamed a thread from durable column and it worked

Reviewers: chad, epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12104
2015-03-17 17:01:33 -07:00
epriestley
cf54194ef5 Improve chat column behavior for newline in empty text box
Summary: Ref T7538. I got this half correct but not fully correct: when you press enter in an empty text box, do nothing (instead of: sending an empty message, or writing a literal newline).

Test Plan: Hit enter in empty chat column box.

Reviewers: btrahan, chad

Reviewed By: chad

Subscribers: epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7538

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12089
2015-03-16 06:44:07 -07:00
epriestley
e5580d038d Improve Conpherence column textarea JS behaviors
Summary:
  - Don't show a loading state on the whole column while sending chat. We could show some kind of minor loading state, but standard JX.Busy stuff will kick in after a couple seconds anyway.
  - Blank the textarea immediately on submit so you can start typing more text.
  - Don't disable the form while submiting; disabling it prevents you from typing more text.
  - Hide the placeholder while the textarea is focused. If we don't do this, the placeholder reappearing after submitting text feels weird to me.

Test Plan:
  - Sent a lot of text.
  - Real fast.
  - Focused and unfocused the area.

Reviewers: btrahan, chad

Reviewed By: chad

Subscribers: epriestley

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12086
2015-03-14 12:00:17 -07:00
epriestley
e6f1c34a47 Send on enter in Conpherence chat column
Summary: Ref T7538. We can figure out whether to backport this to main Conpherence later and/or remove buttons, etc., but this behavior seems pretty clearly good.

Test Plan:
  - Pressed enter (sent message).
  - Pressed shift+enter (newline).

Reviewers: btrahan, chad

Reviewed By: chad

Subscribers: epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7538

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12085
2015-03-14 11:16:47 -07:00
Bob Trahan
e137d0a0c5 Conpherence - finesse global upload vs conpherence durable column upload
Summary: Fixes T7539. We need to set the "with-column" css class on the document body to make things like the jx-mask style-able. Also, make the global upload control only do it for the standard phabrcator page and not the document body.

Test Plan: dragged a file to conpherence column and it worked! uploaded a file to homepage with column open and it worked! uploaded a file to /file/ with column open and it worked!

Reviewers: chad, epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7539

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12055
2015-03-12 13:40:06 -07:00
Bob Trahan
eed10e47c9 Conpherence - support device in durable column
Summary:
Ref T7014. This makes it so

 - you can't invoke the column from a device
 - if you are in desktop size and resize to tablet or phone, the column closes.
 - if you resize desktop -> device -> desktop, the column closes at device size and reopens at desktop size
 - if you load, then resize device -> desktop the column opens if the user has that preference
 - there is a brief flicker when you load on 'device' with the column open preference. it lasts as long as the js stack takes to calculate the device css rule.

Test Plan: see summary but i did stuff to do all that

Reviewers: chad, epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7014

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12052
2015-03-12 12:23:31 -07:00
Bob Trahan
d9adedd9d6 Conpherence - smooth out user interaction switching threads in the durable column
Summary: Ref T7014. This changes the title and selected icon right as the user clicks it. This could //maybe// be in the "willLoadThread" callback hook, but it doesn't happen every time we load a thread, just **this** time so keep it right in the listener for now.

Test Plan: switched some threads and liked what I saw

Reviewers: epriestley, chad

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7014

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12043
2015-03-11 15:55:35 -07:00
Bob Trahan
194a183ea6 Conpherence - add draft support to column and refine sending message user workflow
Summary: Ref T7014. This diff adds draft support.

Test Plan: made many comments and they submitted nicely.

Reviewers: chad, epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7014

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12046
2015-03-11 15:54:07 -07:00
Bob Trahan
c85c07012e Conpherence - make Hide Column action save user preference
Summary: Fixes T7532.

Test Plan: clicked it, reloaded it, still closed

Reviewers: epriestley, chad

Reviewed By: chad

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7532

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12044
2015-03-11 12:58:51 -07:00
epriestley
88b46063b4 Make durable column sticky across requests
Summary: When you open the column, keep it open on future requests.

Test Plan: Opened column, clicked to Conpherence (no column), clicked elsewhere (column again), reloaded page (column), closed column, clicked something (no column).

Reviewers: btrahan

Reviewed By: btrahan

Subscribers: epriestley

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12038
2015-03-10 18:46:16 -07:00
Bob Trahan
4674a5eab9 Conpherence - add icon-based room switcher to durable column view
Summary: Ref T7380. This does the most basic thing ever and sticks up to 6 icons in there.

Test Plan: clicked the icons and noted new conpherences loaded in nicely

Reviewers: epriestley, chad

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7380

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12037
2015-03-10 15:30:49 -07:00
Bob Trahan
10f1692b1b Conpherence - more threadManager stuff and get scrolling working
Summary: Ref T7014. The main conpherence view is kind of broken without this in subtle ways because of /conpherence/ versus /conpherence/x/ init'ing things differently; this fixes that. Moves more normal view conpherence logic into threadManager. Makes all the display code happen outside of threadManager, setting us up for some display manager later maybe.

Test Plan: sent messages, updated title, etc and the messages pane auto scrolled correctly!

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7014

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12035
2015-03-10 13:53:30 -07:00
Bob Trahan
2373185e9b Conpherence - introduce ConpherenceThreadManager
Summary:
Ref T7014. Fixes T7473. This adds a class to handle thread state about what thread is loaded and what transaction we've seen last. It is deployed 100% in the durable column and only partially deployed in the regular view. Future diff(s) should clean up regular view. Note ConpherenceThreadManager API might change a bit at that time.

Also includes a bonus bug fix so logged out users can't toggle this column

Test Plan: tried to use durable column while logged out and nothing happened. sent messages, aphlict-received messages, added people, and changed title from both views

Reviewers: epriestley

Reviewed By: epriestley

Subscribers: Korvin, epriestley

Maniphest Tasks: T7473, T7014

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D12029
2015-03-10 12:20:29 -07:00
Bob Trahan
9b9a8001fa Conpherence - add ability to change title in the durable column
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
2015-03-09 12:09:43 -07:00
Bob Trahan
c97040de47 Conpherence - get the durable column header actions working correctly
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
2015-03-05 15:32:42 -08:00
Bob Trahan
27a60bdb3c Conpherence - make the durable column kind of work and stuff
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
2015-03-05 10:33:39 -08:00
epriestley
a4a24b4283 Fix exception with wrong column content ID
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
2015-03-01 08:22:05 -08:00
epriestley
5c71da8cdb Quicksand, an ignoble successor to Quickling
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
2015-01-27 14:52:09 -08:00
epriestley
893243b789 Approximately rough in persistent chat column very roughly
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
2015-01-27 06:30:52 -08:00