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. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
