On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Rusty Burchfield
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Here's the demo, where you can edit some canned texts (but not actual
>> Wikipedia articles, yet):
>>
>>   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:VisualEditorSandbox
>
> This looks really cool. :-)
>
> What browsers/versions are you targeting?
>
> Out of curiosity, what is making the (un)toggle operations on the
> right take so long?
AFAIK this is a known bug specific to WebKit-based browsers. It
doesn't happen in Firefox.

> Actually, it looks like you are marking up
> individual lines of text.  I suppose that is time consuming.  Why is
> that necessary?
>
The edit surface is *entirely* implemented in JS, almost nothing is
done by the browser. Breaking lines is one of the many things that's
done in JS.

> Will there be a toggle for editing wiki text directly (I see wikitext
> display is already there)?
>
We can't implement that right now because the wikitext -> WikiDOM (the
model used by the editor) isn't ready yet.

Roan

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