Proposed changes from v2.x to v3.x

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• Dynamically optimizing navigation and content of Web pages based upon screen size and device capabilities (mobile-first approach)
• Leveraging native HTML5 features first wherever possible (with polyfill solutions to support browsers with insufficient HTML5 support)
• All features will be compiled and minified in the core (no longer available as separate JS and CSS files)
• Images will be Base64 encoded in the CSS files (with fallback for IE7-8)
• Replace params-based approach for calling features with a class-based approach
• PE object will be moved from the head to the end of the body
• Adding standardized dictionary for all WET features (to ensure consistent labels and messaging)
• Adding i18n localisation support to make it easy to support more than just English or French

Table of Contents Display enhancement features Form interface features Information sharing Interface enhancement Navigation enhancement Personalisation Utility Web management WET themes Framework variants To be decided Discontinued

Display enhancement features

Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
Archived Web Page template	Change to CSS-only solution for top red bar (e.g., position:fixed)	90%	May 24, 2012	Released. Proposed change to CSS-only solution under review.
	DONE: Wording and approach to be updated based upon UXWG testing
Charts and graphs support	DONE: Use the new table parser	10%	August 3, 2012	Released
	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0
Custom typography	Returning to active status	TBD	WET v3.1
	Will use WebFonts
CSS Grid System	DONE: Move entirely to media queries (no JS)	20%	April 30, 2012	Released
	DONE: Include mobile viewports
	DONE: Integrate BootStrap
Lightbox effect	DONE: Returning to active status	n/a	July 26, 2012	Released
	DONE: Will use ColorBox
Mathematical/scientific formula display	DONE: Returning to active status	95%	September 10, 2012	Released
	DONE: Will use MathJax, relying on MathJax CDN
Prettify (source code)	DONE: Use google-code-prettify for source code syntax highlighting.	0%	July 30, 2012	Released
Progress bar	DONE: Use HTML5 progress element with a 3rd party progress bar polyfill	80%	August 17, 2012	Released
Text highlighting	DONE: Cutting out search form and merging highlighting based on query string into the core	75%	May 24, 2012	Released
	DONE: Adding HTML5 mark element on all highlighted words
	Investigate how to navigate between highlighted words
Tracked changes	Merge with search term highlighting (continues to use ins and del elements, and leverages navigation feature)	100%	WET v3.1
Zebra striping	DONE: Adding table column highlighting	0%	May 11, 2012	Released
	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0

Form interface features

Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
Auto-complete for text input fields	DONE: Will use HTML5 input list + datalist with an autocomplete polyfill	90%	August 27, 2012	Released
	Will investigate dynamic lookups
Checkbox list enhancement	Being merged into the core and CSS Grid System	100%	WET v3.1
	Project will be sunset
Deselectable radio buttons	DONE: Being merged into the core (need to investigate appropriate HTML5 attributes)	100%	June 28, 2012	Released (as part of core framework). Loaded globally through settings.js.
	DONE: Project will be sunset
Form enhancement	PPDF (Progressive Form Field Disclosure) first release	TBD	WET v3.1	On hold
Form validation	DONE: Add mobile support	10%	June 25, 2012	Released
Slider control	DONE: Will use HTML5 input type=”range” with slider polyfill	80%	August 17, 2012	Released

Information sharing

Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
Feedback form	DONE: Add mobile support	n/a	June 25, 2012	Released
Rate this page project	Likely to return to active status	n/a	WET v3.1
Share widget	DONE: Addressing outstanding issues	0%	June 4, 2012	Released
Web feeds widget	DONE: Enhance with Twitter support and EC weather support	0%	May 11, 2012	Released

Interface enhancement

Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
Calendar interface - Date picker	DONE: Using HTML5 input type=”date/datetime/month/week/time/datetime-local” with a datepicker polyfill as well as providing a GUI calendar mechanism	25%	August 7, 2012	Released
	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0
Calendar interface - Events calendar	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	August 7, 2012	Released
Coda slider	DONE: Merging into Tabbed interface	100%	WET v3.1
	DONE: Project will be discontinued
Dialog box enhancement	Use HTML5 dialog element with dialog polyfill	TBD	WET v3.1
Expandable/collapsible content	DONE: Will use HTML5 details + summary with an expand/hide polyfill	80%	July 18, 2012	Released
Filterable content	Migrate to WET v3.x	n/a	WET v3.1
Geomap	Update to latest version of OpenLayers	TBD	WET v3.1
	Reduce dependency on YUI
	Need to push fixes to OpenLayers rather than maintaining in plugin
	Deal with keyboard navigation (e.g., what about data points)
Multimedia player	DONE: Will use HTML5 video + source + track + menu with Flash fallback	70%	July 30, 2012	Released
	DONE: Removing Silverlight support
Panorama	Merging into Tabbed interface	100%	WET v3.1
	Project will be discontinued
Table enhancement	Filterable, sortable and searchable tables	n/a	WET v3.1

Navigation enhancement

Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
Accessible footnotes	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	August 15, 2012	Released
	DONE: Adding smart return links (returns to point of origin in multiple reference footnotes)
Floating toolbar	DONE: Project will be discontinued	0%	n/a
Menu bar	DONE: Adding mobile support.	50%	May 11, 2012	Released. HTML5 elements not implemented yet (may not be needed).
	DONE: Support for Horizontal sub-menu dropped
Open new window/tab	DONE: Project will be discontinued	100%	n/a
Slide out tab widget	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0 framework	0%	July 26, 2012	Released
Tabbed interface	DONE: Adding mobile support.	0%	May 11, 2012	Released. Coda slider (tabs-style-6) in testing. Panorama not merged in yet.
	DONE: Merging in Coda slider (tabs-style-6)
	Merging in Panorama

Personalisation

Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
Customizable interface	Returning to active status	40%	WET v3.1
	Will use HTML5 draggable and dropzone with drag and drop polyfill
Geo-targeting	Will use HTML5 Geolocation API with geolocation polyfill	80%	WET v3.1
Style switcher	Merging into Customizable interface	100%	WET v3.1
	Project will be discontinued

Utility

Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
Language selector project	DONE: Migrate to v3.0 framework	0%	July 19, 2012	Released
Optimal content examples	DONE: Will add more examples	0%	August 23, 2012	Released
Optimal content development tools	DONE: Automated tool for complex table validity	n/a	WET v3.1
Session timeout	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	August 29, 2012	Released
WET feature detection	Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	WET v3.1

Web management

Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
Accessibility responsibility breakdown	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	WET v3.0	Released
	Updating with new content
GC style guide	No changes necessary	0%	WET v3.1
Web accessibility assessment methodology	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	July 30, 2012	Released
Web monitoring and management	DONE: Add WPSS to it's own repository.	0%	WET v3.0	Added to /wet-boew/wet-boew-wpss
Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
GC Web Usability theme	DONE: Adding mobile-specific layout and design	0%	May 11, 2012	Released
GC Web Usability intranet theme	DONE: Adding mobile-specific layout and design	0%	June 26, 2012	Released
CLF 2.0 theme	DONE: Create CLF 2.0 theme to smooth transition to the GC Web Usability theme	0%	August 29, 2012	Released

Framework variants

Project	Proposed changes	Reduction in maintenance (estimate)	Target date	Status
.NET variant	Adding mobile-specific layout and design	0%	WET v3.1
Drupal variant	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	August 24, 2012	Released
Mobile device variant	DONE: Merging into the core (due to mobile-first approach)	100%	May 11, 2012	Released
	DONE: Project will be discontinued (since no longer separate project)
PHP variant	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	2012-08-23	Released
SSI variant	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	2012-08-23	Released
WordPress variant	DONE: Migrate to WET v3.0	0%	August 10, 2012	Released

To be decided

• Accessibil-IT theme
• Accessible CAPTCHA
• Active link indicator
• ASP variant
• CodeIgniter variant
• Dot Net Nuke variant
• General theme
• Java variant
• Outlook Web application variant
• Ruby on Rails variant
• SharePoint variant
• TerraFirma2 theme
• Testing techniques repository
• Text/HTML edit widget project
• TYPO3 variant
• XML/XSLT Abstraction

Discontinued

• Client-side CSS
• ColdFusion variant
• Comment on this page
• Cookie handling project (duplicates functionality in the core)
• Countdown
• ELGG variant
• Form button enhancement (duplicates WebForms2 functionality that is being added to the core)
• Helpful 404 error pages
• HTML form to printable output project
• Image-free rounded corners (duplicates functionality in the core)
• Language of preferences cookies (more generic solution to be implemented in the core)
• Mediawiki variant
• Moodle variant
• Movable content project (duplicates Customizable interface)
• Multimedia conversion service
• Open new window/tab
• Perl variant
• Save page to alternate format
• Select field enhancement (duplicates WebForms2 functionality that is being added to the core)
• Semantic Web
• Slideshow (duplicates Tabbed interface)
• Social media updates widget (duplicates Web feeds widget)
• Suggested pages
• TeamSite variant
• Text input field enhancement (duplicates WebForms2 functionality that is being added to the core)
• Uploaded widget (duplicates WebForms2 functionality that is being added to the core)
• Username and password interface (duplicates WebForms2 functionality that is being added to the core)
• Web form wizard
• WET manager
• YAF variant