On 5 March 2013 13:02, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@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.