All, As before, an update for the past two weeks' work on the VisualEditor project, as we get close to deployment:
2012-11-26 (MW 1.21wmf5)<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2012-11-26_.28MW_1.21wmf5.29> The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 branch deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf5> on Monday 26 November. In two weeks since 1.21wmf4, the team have spent their time mostly working on finalising the code and preparing for its deployment in December as a test for users. A lot of work went into the 'Data Model' component that converts between the information that Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> gives us and a structure that the code can edit. This now supports HTML entities (so "ô", "ô", and "รด" do not get switched when users don't expect it - 42118 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42118>), HTML comments (so they don't get accidentally removed - 42124<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42124>; viewing and editing them is not yet supported), better handling for content that we don't yet recognise (42119<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42119>), fixing a bug with our integration with Parsoid (42121<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42121>), and supporting in production the "Change Markers" code that was worked on last iteration (41947 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41947> ). In the integration work, we removed the "Feedback" link as this would not work well with the code being deployed to multiple wikis (41722<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41722>) and unfortunately had to add Internet Explorer temporarily to the "blacklist" of browsers that the VisualEditor will not support for December, due to a number of critical issues that the team does not have time to fix (42335 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42335>) - post-December, the team will work to find a way around the various bugs and inconsistencies in Internet Explorer. We fixed bugs on handling "alien nodes" (items of content that we don't have a specific handler for yet, like templates), such as the floated alien-covering "phantoms" for selection purposes appearing wrongly in Firefox (42177 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42177>) and them not appearing at all for items that floated due to a class in Chrome 42134 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42134>). There was also some nasty bugs that we fixed, including when editing around inline (mid-paragraph) alien nodes (42212<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42212>) and the data model and the display getting out of sync sometimes when cutting-and-pasting (42219<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42219> ). Finally, a great deal of work was done to overhaul the link inspector's code and quash a large number of minor bugs with it, such as wrongly replacing links's spaces with underscores (42140<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42140> ). A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf5 changelog <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf5#VisualEditor>, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&target_milestone=VE-deploy-2012-11-26&product=VisualEditor&list_id=146843> . An update for the Parsoid is available on its status page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/status> . Hope this helps. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester
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