All,
My weekly
update<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-10-10_.28M…
about
progress on VisualEditor:
VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 branch
deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf22> on
Thursday 17 October. In the week since 1.22wmf21, the team worked on some
feature changes, infrastructure improvements, and fixing bugs.
We improved media item resizing in a few ways. Firstly, inline media items
can now be resized in the same way that has been possible with block ones
(like thumbnails) before. When resizing a media item, you can see a live
preview of how it will look as you drag it (bug
54298<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54298>)8>).
Whilst you are dragging an image to resize it, we now show a label with the
current dimensions (bug
54297<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54297>)7>).
Once you have resized it, we fetch a new higher-resolution image for the
media item if necessary (bug
55697<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55697>)7>).
Manual setting of media item sizes in their dialog is nearly complete and
should be available next week.
Beyond this work, there was a lot of preparatory work done to make it
possible to re-use elements of VisualEditor outside of the full VE surface
(such as in other extensions or gadgets), which should be completed soon,
and adding support for switching extra parts of VisualEditor on in the
forthcoming Beta Features <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features>
extension.
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf22
changelog<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf22/Changelog#…or>,
and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period are on Bugzilla's
list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&…
.
If you have any questions, please do ask.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester