https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61974
Bug ID: 61974
Summary: Change Semantic Forms autocompletion to use the
Select2 library
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: SemanticForms
Assignee: yaro...@gmail.com
Reporter: yaro...@gmail.com
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
Semantic Forms autocompletion, which currently uses jQuery UI Autocomplete,
should switch to using the Select2 JS library
(https://github.com/ivaynberg/select2). This will allow a number of important
improvements:
- "Tokenization" of values (putting squares around each term), which has become
increasingly common in user interfaces
- Flexible autocompletion for characters with accents
- Display of an image associated with each term
- Displaying values in a tree-type structure
- Much better support for autocompletion on remote data sets
Tied in with that, it may make sense to create a new input type, maybe called
"tokens", that uses the standard Select2 handling for a field with a list of
values. ("text with autocomplete" would possibly be deprecated as a result.)
And "combobox" should switch to using Select2, and possibly become the default
input type for Page property fields (replacing "text with autocomplete"). And
possibly, but less likely, "combobox" and "tokens" should become the new
default input types for enumerated fields holding a single and a list of
values, respectively (replacing "dropdown" and "checkboxes").
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