https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56381
Web browser: ---
Bug ID: 56381
Summary: Change DOM rendering of <nowiki /> to be <span
typeof="mw:Nowiki"></span> or similar?
Product: Parsoid
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Footprints_
%28film%29&curid=39472392&diff=579475542&oldid=5793576
88
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: DOM
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
VisualEditor deliberately drops <span typeof="mw:Nowiki"> annotations on
changed content to prevent originally-necessary <nowiki> blocks interfering
with editing. This means that HTML editors don't need to know or care about
<nowiki>s, and they are just magically sorted out in the back-end so the
resultant wikitext is the most like what a human would create.
However, <nowiki />s come out as a <meta typeof="mw:Placeholder">, which
VisualEditor doesn't show to users but also won't ever remove, leading to
potential issues where a no-longer-needed <nowiki /> sits in the wikitext,
disruptively confusing to wikitext editors.
If Parsoid instead represented it as <span typeof="mw:Nowiki"></span> or
similar, VisualEditor could do the same (well, a bit more work) and so drop it
when the context has been edited, letting Parsoid re-generate it if needed.
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