On 5 March 2013 13:02, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote:

> James, thanks for this report.
>
> > better documentation (45264 amongst others). The user interface through a
> > major refactor and refresh now has access to a much more consistent set
> of
> > 'widgets' for the main interface and for items like the link inspector as
> > well as the to-come category, template and references dialogs which are
> > being designed.
>
> Yay more consistency!  Is it possible to look at the prototype designs
> for those dialogs?
>

As soon as we have more than mere sketches, of course. :-)


> > Additionally, the dependency on a key library called 'rangy' was
> refactored,
> > and the broken copy-and-paste support between VisualEditor instances was
> > removed, in anticipation of better copy-and-paste to work with
> > non-VisualEditor surfaces as well.
>
> Thank you so much for prioritizing this; broken copy-and-paste between
> applications or surfaces maddens me disproportionately so I also
> disproportionately appreciate relevant fixes. :-)
>

I agree - it's really important that we make VisualEditor better than or at
least as good as wikitext in every way, not just some of them, and that
includes copy-and-paste.

(If any of you have any other worry areas, please do mention them here, by
direct e-mail, or on-wiki. We can only make sure we've dealt with it if we
know that we need to!)

J.
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

[email protected] | @jdforrester
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