On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I've had a significant update to Live Preview in the pipeline for a while now. It brings a few major improvements, the most important of it being able to load resourceloader modules that the preview requires, fixing a whole slew of problems that the old implementation had. The only place where it is a bit limited is with regard for previewing the list of languages in in skins other than vector.

The code is here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131346/ < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131346/%3E And it could use some user testing and review.

Some people have been asking me about this lately, so I figured time to strip the WIP tag of it and see if we can get this merged already. Long term, I would like to improve it to make use of mw.template for some of the elements, but that is not a necessity right now I think.

DJ

I love that you're working on this. :)

I was one of the people who asked you about the overall feature recently, as I'd put together some notes at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Live_preview (now with many improvements/additions by Cacycle) I've just added an (empty) column in the feature-comparison table, for your updated version. Possibly you could fill out the ?s, if you think that page might be helpful to anyone.

I'll be happy with anything that improves the standard option, and/or anything that gets the developers of the independent usersscripts to collaborate.