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Changes between Initial Version and Version 7 of Ticket #33507


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09/16/2015 10:46:23 PM (10 years ago)
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westonruter
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  • Ticket #33507

    • Property Owner set to westonruter
    • Property Status changed from new to accepted
    • Property Summary changed from Revamp widgets to be JS-driven to Allow widget controls to be JS-driven
  • Ticket #33507 – Description

    initial v7  
    2323While the above focuses specifically on making the `WP_Widget::form()` and `WP_Widget::update()` both JS-driven, there may also be an opportunity to allow widgets to opt-in to JS-driven rendering of a given widget (i.e. implementing `WP_Widget::widget()`, in JS). This would make a lot of sense if the widget defined its template in Mustache (or Twig) and then allowed the instance array to be applied to that template either server-side or client-side. The effect for client-side would be postMessage instant previews of changes to widgets in the Customizer. The PHP-driven performant alternative to this would be partial-refresh as outlined in #27355.
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     25By using JS-driven widgets, we will be able to use control templates for the widget controls as opposed to having to include a separate copy of the widget form with each control's params. This can drastically reduce the page weight, since the control template only needs to be included once.
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    2527By implementing JS-driven widget controls, the user experience of managing widgets would be vastly improved and the server load would be greatly reduced.