On 12 November 2014 14:46, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 12, 2014 9:44 AM, "James Forrester" jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 8 November 2014 22:01, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Furthermore: find some way to present only the conflicted lines (ie
what
conflict markers show in a source control system) in a user friendly
way.
The normal way to solve this UX problem is "three column diff", but
that
(a) isn't remotely good for mobile interfaces, and (b) adds Yet Another Interface which may confuse as much as it assists. We'd need a lot of painful UX research and a huge amount of developer time here, I feel.
I think you're right if we really want to do it well. But this might be one of those cases where we can make it suck much less without quite making it "good", which might be worthwhile in this case. Maybe.
Oh, sure. I'm not totally convinced that we'll be able to help with HTML/DOM diffing, but that's planned at some point in the future and should at least provide a much better experience for non-wikitext users in navigating changes to documents. It's possible that it will provide a "simple" UX for edit conflicts as well, I suppose.
J.