Hi Peter,
This is the first time I've heard about that happening, thanks for bringing
it up. Can you say more about what you're experiencing? I don't think
syntax highlighting gives an error message like that, so I'm not sure what
you mean.
Danny
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:31 AM, Peter Southwood <
peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
Good news indeed.
Is there a way we can stop it from crashing in mid edit and giving
unhelpful advice like get a faster computer or a faster connection? I would
not mind waiting a little longer for it to finish the job. It would be
helpful if there were a user setting which allows longer wait time for
those of us who cannot get a faster computer or connection for economic or
geographical reasons.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On
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Sent: Wednesday, 23 August 2017 8:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] New beta feature: Syntax Highlighting!
Hi everyone,
I've got some good news -- wikitext syntax highlighting is live again, and
I'm almost completely sure it's staying live. :) You can now enable it as a
Beta feature on all LTR wikis.
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Andy,
Thanks for sending your thoughts, that's the kind of feedback that we
need. People can either write responses in this thread, or post it on
the project's talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/
Wikitext_editor_syntax_highlighting
We'll respond as comments come in, making bug fixes and then making a
plan for changes as we see what people have to say. Thanks again.
Danny
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:07 PM Andy Mabbett
<andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:
On 3 August 2017 at 23:21, Danny Horn
<dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
WMF's Community Tech team team is happy to
announce that Wikitext
Editor Syntax Highlighting has been released as a beta feature
today on all LTR Wikimedia projects!
I'm all in favour of having syntax highlighting - I teach people to
edit wikicode, and I find it helps them to learn it more quickly.
I've been using the syntax highlighting gadget en.Wikipedia:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot/
Syntax_highlighter
for some time now. I've just disabled, it, and instead enabled the
new beta feature.
My first impression is that it is lacking in contrast - it's far
harder, now, to differentiate the various types of content. Indeed
the colour pairs used (e.g. #8800CC vs. #AAAAB3) fail WCAG web
accessibility guidelines for colour contrast.
I realise that choice of styling colours is a "bikeshed" matter, but
contrast ratio is a quantifiable and objective accessibility issue.
Also, because the script does not load immediately, the larger
headings cause the page to "dance" as the script kicks in.
What plans are there to either receive and act on feedback such as
this, or to provide greater user-customisation options?
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