[QA] VisualEditor, cursors, and new browsers

[Rummana Yasmeen]

Note: I think it is not because of the updated FireFox version rather some
change in the code that fixed these.Because these issues are still
reproducible in test 2 with same FireFox version.


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Rummana Yasmeen <ryasmeen at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hello,
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> I checked the issues that we had with the difference in the cursor
> behavior in FireFox 25 and it looks like they got fixed in betalabs
> environment.
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> The cursor related issue that I tested are the followings:
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> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56274-unexpected RETURN
> upon first editing a page
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56642-VisualEditor: In
> firefox, while typing on reference dialog box the first character always
> goes to the next line and cannot be deleted thereafter
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> The test page that I tested on is:
> http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Teetly&veaction=edit
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> Thanks,
> Rummana
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>wrote:
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:35 AM
>> Subject: VisualEditor, cursors, and new browsers
>> To: "Software quality assurance for Wikimedia projects." <
>> qa at lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
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>> Hello QAers,
>>
>> For some time now we have been experiencing different behavior between
>> Firefox and Chrome in the VisualEditor with regard to cursor operations:
>>  RETURN, ARROW_DOWN, ARROW_RIGHT, BACKSPACE, DELETE etc. etc.
>>
>> In particular, when using arrow keys and such to move around a page such
>> as
>> http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/User:Selenium_user/cursor_test_page in
>> VE, sometimes the first cursor events would not fire; or sometimes the
>> cursor would not move past the objects in the page; etc.
>>
>> This week a few things happened that might affect this behavior again:
>>
>> * We had a change to how VisualEditor does cursors
>> * Firefox released version 25
>> * Chrome release version 31 (with specific changes to characters in
>> contentEditable tags like VE)
>>
>> So if anyone would like to do some exploratory testing for VE with
>> cursors on pages in beta labs like the one noted above, and report what you
>> find here on the list, that would be of interest.
>>
>> (Note that you'll have to create a user and enable VisualEditor in your
>> preferences, if you have not already done that.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Chris
>>
>>
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