Last modified: 2014-02-19 16:58:59 UTC
Lazy-loading the mediawiki.notification module when mw.notify() is called results in minor, but noticeable delay. This is particularly jarring with the AJAX watching functionality; the star stops spinning, nothing happens for a while, and then the notification appears.
Change 113540 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński: Preload mediawiki.notification when we know we're going to need it soon https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/113540
Change 113540 merged by jenkins-bot: Preload mediawiki.notification when we know we're going to need it soon https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/113540
That should be good enough for me ;)