Hello all,

As before, the regular updatehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-04-29_.28MW_1.22wmf3.29 about progress on the VisualEditor (sorry I've missed the last couple of these):

VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf3 branch deployment https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf3 on Monday 29 April. In the two weeks since 1.22wmf2, the team have worked on deploying the VisualEditor opt-in alpha to more wikis, and on the new features for VisualEditor's wider launch as the default way users will edit our wikis: Categories, Templates, References and Images.

Fixed a number of bugs and regressions, including the 'bold' button not allowing you to un-bold some text (47680https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47680), fixing the link inspector throwing out "undefined" in some cases and other issues (47413 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47413), cleaning up the deployment including making the feedback link language-variable and having VE allow users preferences on non-deployed wikis (42936 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42936), avoiding a Firefox bug where shift-right caused characters to be deleted ( 47711 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47711), fixing a failure to let users convert between paragraphs and headings when next to an inline node (41203 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41203), and changing the integration so that the VisualEditor is now the editor behind the "Edit" tab (47396https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47396 ).

Additionally, we adjusted our code that faces Parsoidhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid to adapt to changes there and not fail when editing non-current pages (47434https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47434), fixed a problem of blank paragraphs getting inserted in some cases (46800https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46800), worked around a bug in jQuery that meant that references and other tags were getting corrupted (47417https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47417 and later 47737 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47737), avoided leaving trailing paragraphs when inserting content at the start or end of a paragraph (46799https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46799), made some speed improvements in the editing surface and the back-end (47343https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47343), and informed the user when a failure happens on serialisation (47581https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47581 ).

In experimental code that is not live on the Wikimedia servers yet, on images (37870 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37870) we added initial support for displaying and editing inline and thumbnail images, resizing of images, selection of images and other generated content with cursor keys (38129https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38129), and drag-and-drop relocation of images and other nodes. For references ( 39599 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39599) we added some infrastructure support for references. For templates (39598https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39598) we ensured that templates re-serialise to their original HTML if unchanged ( 47394 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47394).

A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf3 changeloghttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf3/Changelog#VisualEditor, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's listhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&target_milestone=VE-deploy-2013-04-29&product=VisualEditor&list_id=194766 .

​If you have any questions, please do ask.​

​Yours,