All,

As before, the regular updatehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-10-10_.28MW_1.22wmf21.29 about progress on VisualEditor (a little late this week; my apologies!):

VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf21 branch deployment https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf21 on Thursday 10 October. In the week since 1.22wmf20, the team worked on fixing bugs and stability improvements to VisualEditor.

When you delete or backspace over a node (like a template, reference or image), the node will first will become selected before a second press of the key will delete it, making it more obvious what you are doing and avoiding accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug 55336https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55336 ).

If you hold down the ⇧ Shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. A number of improvements were made to the transactions system which make the undo/redo system able to cope better with real-time collaboration, where multiple users will be able to edit a page at the same time in one session.

The save dialog was re-written to use the same code as all other dialogs (bug 48566 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48566), and in the process fixed a number of issues. The save dialog is re-accessible if it loses focus (bug 50722https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50722), or if you review a null edit (bug 53313https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53313); its checkboxes for minor edit, watch the page, and flagged revisions options now layout much more cleanly (bug 52175https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52175), and the tab order of the buttons is now closer to what users will expect (bug 51918 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51918).

The code for the action buttons on the right (RTL environments: left) of the toolbar was re-written slightly to improve its flexibility. The display of the help and edit notice menus is now improved, including the addition of a close button (bug 52386https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52386). The width of the format drop-down was made adjustable so that long labels don't cause it to break (bug 54870https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54870), and a bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug 55343https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55343 ).

A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf21 changeloghttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf21/Changelog#VisualEditor, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period are on Bugzilla's listhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&product=VisualEditor&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=VE-deploy-2013-10-10&order=component&list_id=240826 . If you have any questions, please do ask.​

Yours,