All,
This fortnight's update for VisualEditor[0] - I'm skipping the one
for Parsoid based on your feedback, but it is available here[1]:
The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf1
branch deployment[2] on Monday 1 October.
The team have spent most of the two weeks since 1.20wmf12 working on
re-designing how the code integrates together, providing clean
interfaces between them so new developers can re-use and extend
VisualEditor to support new 'node types' like categories or tables
when we work on these later.
Beyond this API work, we added a few updates. Firstly, you can now set
the 'annotation' where the caret is, without a selection — i.e., you
can click somewhere, type Ctrl+B (or press the 'Bold' icon) and start
typing with the text appearing bold (33140 [3]). We also now switch
around the order of the undo and redo buttons for right-to-left
languages (38548 [4]). Finally, we fixed a bug where applying a link
to some text would remove any other 'annotations' (such as bold or
italics) already set on it (40337 [5]).
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the
1.21/wmf1 changelog [6], and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period
on Bugzilla's list[7].
[0] -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2012-10-01_.28MW_1.21wmf…
[1] -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/status#2012-10-01
[2] -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf1
[3] -
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33140
[4] -
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38548
[5] -
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40337
[6] -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf1#VisualEditor
[7] -
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_st…
Yours,
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester | +1 415-839-6885 x6844