https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50405

James Forrester <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Priority|Unprioritized               |Lowest
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |ASSIGNED
            Summary|Section edit links          |VisualEditor: Come up with
                   |reserving space on the      |a solution of section edit
                   |right for "edit source"     |links' placement when they
                   |link (even when floated     |are floated right (due to a
                   |right)                      |gadget)
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #1 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Until a recent MediaWiki change the default behavior of edit section links
> was
> to float to the far side of the heading (right on LTR Wikis, assume this case
> in the following).
> 
> This was changed recently but almost all Wikis provide Gadgets to restore the
> old behavior (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-righteditlinks.css or
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-editsection-align-end.css for
> examples)
> 
> The problem is, that the VisualEditor's fly-out-links reserve space to the
> right for the "edit source" link. Therefore when aligning the links right
> they
> actually appear with a large distance to the page-margin. The fly-outs should
> therefore be modified to not reserve any space so the "edit" link is
> correctly
> aligned right.
> 
> To prevent the fly-outs to shift the whole "edit" link left as soon as they
> become visible they could be changed to fly-out to the left in this case or
> to the bottom.

Note that in general WMF does not support gadgets and does not encourage their
use; they are highly likely to break like this when the code they depend on
changes, and this is a good example of that breakage. :-(

I've re-written this a bit to be clearer. As "lowest" priority, reflecting that
we don't support gadgets. of course anyone who is interested in patching is
welcome to suggest ideas/code that could address this.

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