- Deleted /stylesheets folder
- Removed sass build from gulpfile
- Changed gov links to usa links
- Changed other govuk styles, like breadcrumbs
- Changed name of uk_components file to us_components
- Fixed a few tests that broke on account of the changes
This changeset converts the display of dates and times to be just UTC to match the recent changes in the backend. This unwinds a bit of work that was done previously and allows us to start with a clean slate in how we want to approach displaying dates and times going forward. It also adds a bit of explanatory text to help users.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Costino <carlo.costino@gsa.gov>
Co-authored-by: stvnrlly <steven.reilly@gsa.gov>
* Updated header and footer
* Updated fonts
* Moved files around and updated gulpfile to correct the build process when it goes to production
* Adjusted grid templating
* Added images to assets
* Update app/templates/components/uk_components/footer/template.njk
Co-authored-by: Steven Reilly <stvnrlly@users.noreply.github.com>
The page_header macro includes an optional back link. Since the
page_header is always used inside `<main>`, where the back link should
not be, this stops setting the back link in the page header and instead
sets it in the new `backLink` block.
is unable to print the letter we need to mark the letter as failed.
If we mark the letter as a technical-failure, we say that we will fix
the issue, which is wrong because we can not fix the issue.
If we mark the letter as validation-failed, the letter is in wrong
bucket so the letter is not viewable/downloadable by the client.
This PR updates the message for a letter marked as permanent-failure to
better reflect what has actually happened.
All paragraphs should have class="govuk-body", or be otherwise
custom-styled. This commit adds some extra checks to our test fixture
that looks for paragraphs that don’t have any styling. Our test coverage
is pretty good, so this should check almost all pages, and prevent
regressions.
I’ve done this in such a way that it can be extended for other elements
(e.g. links) in the future.
By default our AJAX calls were 2 seconds. Then they were 5 seconds
because someone reckoned 2 seconds was putting too much load on the
system. Then we made them 10 seconds while we were having an incident.
Then we made them 20 seconds for the heaviest pages, but back to 5
seconds or 2 seconds for the rest of the pages.
This is not a good situation because:
- it slows all services down equally, no matter how much traffic they
have, or which features they have switched on
- it slows everything down by the same amount, no matter how much load
the platform is under
- the values are set based on our worst performance, until we manually
remember to switch them back
- we spend time during incidents deploying changes to slow down the
dashboard refresh time because it’s a nothing-to-lose change that
might relieve some symptoms, when we could be spending time digging
into the underlying cause
This pull request makes the Javascript smarter about how long it waits
until it makes another AJAX call. It bases the delay on how long the
server takes to respond (as a proxy for how much load the server is
under).
It’s based on the square root of the response time, so is more sensitive
to slow downs early on, and less sensitive to slow downs later on. This
helps us give a more pronounced difference in delay between an AJAX call
that is fast (for example the page for a single notification) and one
that is slow (for example a dashboard for a service with lots of
traffic).
*Some examples of what this would mean for various pages*
Page | Response time | Wait until next AJAX call
---|---|---
Check a reply to address | 130ms | 1,850ms
Brand new service dashboard | 229ms | 2,783ms
HM Passport Office dashboard | 634ms | 5,294ms
NHS Coronavirus Service dashboard | 779ms | 5,977ms
_Example of the kind of slowness we’ve seen during an incident_ | 6,000ms | 18,364ms
GOV.UK email dashboard | `HTTP 504` | 😬
Dashboard is the most intensive page we AJAX, and also the highest
traffic one. We’ve already slowed it from 2 to 5 seconds, this slows it
further to 20 seconds to reduce the load.
This leaves other pages (for example looking at a single job) at the
platform-level default of 5 seconds, because we think they cause less
load and the real-timelyness isn’t critical to people’s business
processes.
For looking at a single notification we know from research that someone
sending these one-at-a-time often waits to see if they’re delivered,
so let’s bring this back down to the previous value of 2 seconds.
Converts links in the following:
- the page-footer component
- the table component
- the browse-list component
- the notification status, when reporting failures
- validation messaging in the whitelist page
Includes:
- turning off :visited styles to match existing
design
- swapping heading classes used to make links bold
for the GOVUK Frontend bold override class
- adding visually hidden text to some links to
make them work when isolated from their context
We may need to revisit whether some links, such as
those for documentation and features, may benefit
from having some indication that their target has
been visited.
Converts links in the following:
- the page-footer component
- the table component
- the browse-list component
- the notification status, when reporting failures
- validation messaging in the whitelist page
Includes:
- turning off :visited styles to match existing
design
- swapping heading classes used to make links bold
for the GOVUK Frontend bold override class
- adding visually hidden text to some links to
make them work when isolated from their context
We may need to revisit whether some links, such as
those for documentation and features, may benefit
from having some indication that their target has
been visited.
This is a friendlier and better way of showing dates anywhere except in
a report which might be archived and referred back to later.
Bit trickier to implement here because a dat requires ‘on’ beforehand,
but we don’t say ‘on today’ in English.
This helps people understand how delivery dates fit into the week,
because if sending a letter spans the weekend it will take a bit longer.
We can remove `|string` now because `utc_string_to_aware_gmt_datetime`
now accepts datetimes.
This replaces the buttons that aren't part of a macro and that we don't
need to write additional styles for with their govuk-frontend equivalent.
There were some links that were styled to look like buttons, so these
have also been replaced with the new govuk-frontend macro.
There was one button on the `choose-account.html` template that was in a
section of code that was never reached - this has been deleted.
