Re: To temporarily disable annotations sidebar

Hi all,

So far, three people said its fine to temporarily disable.

I’m going to disable temporary this friday afternoon (in ~18h), unless I
get >= 3 by then.

Thanks


On 2014-06-24, 5:57 PM, Carlos Araya wrote:
> Renoir, Jen,
>
> Concatenating and minimizing the Javascript and CSS help deal with the
> issues of HTTP requests and slow loading times.
>
> If you need help with how to do it, let me know. 
>
> Carlos
> On Jun 24, 2014, at 5:13, Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com
> <mailto:jen@jensimmons.com>> wrote:
>
>> More metrics — a CSS property page  takes 7.66 seconds to load,
>> making 137 http requests. 
>> That's /really really/ bad. 
>>
>> We should be well under a 2 second load time, ideally under 1 second. 
>>
>> Jen Simmons
>> designer, consultant and speaker
>> host of The Web Ahead
>> jensimmons.com <http://jensimmons.com/>
>> 5by5.tv/webahead <http://5by5.tv/webahead>
>> twitter: jensimmons <http://twitter.com/jensimmons>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com
>> <mailto:jen@jensimmons.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I think this is a good idea. The annotations sidebar does slow
>>     the site down tremendously, bringing the page load to 57
>>     javascript files and 8 CSS files.  YSlow gives the site a 'D'. 
>>
>>     Study after study shows that web pages that load slowly loose
>>     users. I do think the UX of the current Annotations is confusing
>>     — with a separate login, and a mysterious line / sidebar-thingy
>>     down the right side of the page. Web Platform needs all the help
>>     it can get to take off. Having slow loading pages that feel janky
>>     and have this confusing sidebar login thing doesn't help.
>>
>>     Why don't we temporarily disable the Annotations system, and
>>     bring it back when 1) the performance is fast, and 2) the UX is
>>     solved. And then meanwhile focus on getting the compatibility
>>     table system done. 
>>
>>     Jen
>>
>>     Jen Simmons
>>     designer, consultant and speaker
>>     host of The Web Ahead
>>     jensimmons.com <http://jensimmons.com/>
>>     5by5.tv/webahead <http://5by5.tv/webahead>
>>     twitter: jensimmons <http://twitter.com/jensimmons>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Renoir Boulanger <renoir@w3.org
>>     <mailto:renoir@w3.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi all,
>>
>>         I’ve been thinking to disable temporarily the annotation
>>         sidebar and I’d
>>         like your opinion about it.
>>
>>         The day before the Beyond Tellerand DocSprint, I spent more
>>         than hour
>>         with somebody on IRC because he couldn’t login to edit pages.
>>         Its only
>>         after some time that I realized that he was using the
>>         annotation sidebar
>>         as the only way to register to our site. He’s most likely not
>>         the only
>>         one who got caught with it.
>>
>>         Maybe its better to remove confusion factors and enable it
>>         only when we
>>         have the Accounts-system/SSO enabled. Something that’s coming
>>         soon anyway.
>>
>>         Besides that, it also impacts the site load time. In fact,
>>         the sidebar
>>         loader calls a bunch of files like a web application development
>>         environment would —not a production one, which our deployment
>>         is. Their
>>         development stack (Python) actually has the piping to minify
>>         their
>>         assets, its just not configured yet.
>>
>>
>>         My proposal:
>>
>>         - Disable the automatic annotator sidebar loader
>>         - Keep the notes.webplatform.org <http://notes.webplatform.org/>
>>         - Upgrade the annotator as soon as its available, that includes:
>>           - SSO integration (they’re almost there)
>>           - Sidebar loader performance (in progress)
>>
>>         The time frame is about a week or so.
>>
>>         Opinions
>>
>>         --
>>         Regards,
>>
>>         Renoir Boulanger  |  Developer operations engineer
>>         W3C  |  Web Platform Project
>>
>>         http://w3.org/people/#renoirb  ✪
>>          https://renoirboulanger.com/  ✪  @renoirb
>>         ~
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Regards,

Renoir Boulanger  |  Developer operations engineer
W3C  |  Web Platform Project

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Received on Thursday, 26 June 2014 20:55:22 UTC