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.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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