Decrement update count bubbles when you update things

[mitchoyoshitaka]

This can be done via some JavaScript, including for the bulk updater case, and it looks pretty cool. :) Video attached, as well as a first-pass patch.

[mitchoyoshitaka]

Patch v1.1, forgot to add update.dev.js

[mitchoyoshitaka]

Here's the video: ​http://mitcho.com/17703.mov

[mitchoyoshitaka]

Patch to fix patchrot, as #17694 landed. Should apply cleanly to trunk.

[mitchoyoshitaka]

Was missing a file

[gcorne]

This seems like a good idea, so I went ahead and created a fresh patch (see 17703-04.patch​). The approach is a little different from Mitcho’s. Instead of offsetting the existing counts, an ajax call is triggered that pulls updated counts. For situations where the requests where the upgrades run is in an iframe, window.postMessage is used to send a message to the parent window that triggers the count updating.

One benefit of using an ajax handler is that it opens the door to refreshing the counts asynchronously at other times so that the status is more current without impacting the response time of admin page loads.

[gcorne]

After discussing a bit with @nacin, we discussed an alternative approach that forgoes the ajax call to fetch updated data and instead just decrements the existing counts via javascript. Since it is quite unlikely that a install with have over 1,000 plugins, we don't need to worry about localizing the number, which was one of the main reasons for the ajax call.

17703-05.patch​ is an implementation of this approach. The patch also removes the title attribute for the update count, which I am not 100% sure we want to do, but it was another aspect that we discussed.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to gcorne:

The patch also removes the title attribute for the update count, which I am not 100% sure we want to do, but it was another aspect that we discussed.

The pending comment count would still have a title attribute. It seems inconsistent to remove the title just for updates, so I'd suggest keeping it for now.

[nacin]

In 27280:

Decrement update count bubbles as plugins/themes are updated, live.

props gcorne, mitchoyoshitaka.
fixes #17703.

[nacin]

In 27281:

Remove title attributes on the fly when [27280] makes them incorrect. see #17703.