https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48429
James Forrester <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Severity|minor |enhancement --- Comment #2 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #0) > I don't seem to be able to section edit with VisualEditor. There are three issues here: * To edit a section, we would need to get its HTML from Parsoid - but a section isn't guaranteed to be balanced HTML, for example (commonly-used): {| ! Foo !! Bar |- === Section 1 === |- | Foo || bar === Section 2 === |- | Foo || bar |} Coming up with a solution to this is would be a significant piece of engineering effort for marginal utility. * The reasons we brought in section-editing originally were two-fold - to skip past confusing wikitext in other areas to find the item you actually wanted to edit (not an issue in the context of VisualEditor), and to avoid edit conflicts using the page-based diffs at the time (not an issue for ~ 7 years since Tim re-wrote the diff tool). * Editing by section blocks users from editing other areas at the same time that the notice flaws in after they've entered editing, for very limited added-value. The behaviour in VisualEditor when running as the default editor is for the edit section links to take you into VE for the entire page, with the view moved down to the anchor of that section (note, this is not how it appears right now on the various Wikipedias, but will be once they have the 'beta' enabled). I'm not convinced that this is a WONTFIX, but I'm similarly not convinced that we should spend our time fixing this rather than, say, making VisualEditor and Parsoid work on Wikisource, or other things we could be doing with our limited resources. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
