On 12 November 2014 14:46, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Nov 12, 2014 9:44 AM, "James Forrester" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 8 November 2014 22:01, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Furthermore: find some way to present only the conflicted lines (ie
> what
> > > conflict markers show in a source control system) in a user friendly
> > >
> ​
> way.​

>
> > ​The normal way to solve this UX problem is "three column diff"​, but
> that
> > (a) isn't remotely good for mobile interfaces, and (b) adds Yet Another
> > Interface which may confuse as much as it assists. We'd need a lot of
> > painful UX research and a huge amount of developer time here, I feel.
>
> I think you're right if we really want to do it well. But this might be one
> of those cases where we can make it suck much less without quite making it
> "good", which might be worthwhile in this case. Maybe.
>

​Oh, sure. I'm not totally convinced that we'll be able to help with
HTML/DOM diffing, but that's planned at some point in the future and should
at least provide a much better experience for non-wikitext users in
navigating changes to documents. It's possible that it will provide a
"simple" UX for edit conflicts as well, I suppose.

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

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