On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:35:02 +0200, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This interaction was committed by a volunteer not on
the VE team.[1][2]
Ideally,VE would be good enough that we wouldn't need edit source links on
sections at all. Personally I advocated for not including them by any
method. However, people felt that it was important to give users a choice
on section edit links, and that as opposed to a dropdown or simply
displaying both links statically, using a progressive display was the more
elegant way of showing both options. MatmaRex could not have been clearer
about this on the patch.
1.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49666
2.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/69984/
Not true; the patch was rewritten by Trevor, and he's marked as the author. My version
was showing both of the links all the time, with no animations, and I still think it's
a better solution.
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Matma Rex