On 12 November 2014 14:46, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 12, 2014 9:44 AM, "James Forrester"
<jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On 8 November 2014 22:01, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)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.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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