On 5 March 2013 13:02, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
James, thanks for this report.
better documentation (45264 amongst others). The
user interface through a
major refactor and refresh now has access to a much more consistent set
of
'widgets' for the main interface and for
items like the link inspector as
well as the to-come category, template and references dialogs which are
being designed.
Yay more consistency! Is it possible to look at the prototype designs
for those dialogs?
As soon as we have more than mere sketches, of course. :-)
Additionally,
the dependency on a key library called 'rangy' was
refactored,
and the broken copy-and-paste support between
VisualEditor instances was
removed, in anticipation of better copy-and-paste to work with
non-VisualEditor surfaces as well.
Thank you so much for prioritizing this; broken copy-and-paste between
applications or surfaces maddens me disproportionately so I also
disproportionately appreciate relevant fixes. :-)
I agree - it's really important that we make VisualEditor better than or at
least as good as wikitext in every way, not just some of them, and that
includes copy-and-paste.
(If any of you have any other worry areas, please do mention them here, by
direct e-mail, or on-wiki. We can only make sure we've dealt with it if we
know that we need to!)
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester