Get rid of the "You must save your edit before switching to another editing mode." alert and make it just work. All the code already exists for this in mw.ArticleTarget with use in mw.DesktopArticleTarget; we "merely" need to hook it up in mw.MobileArticleTarget.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | ppelberg | T221185 Prepare visual editor to be a default mobile editor | |||
| Resolved | • matmarex | T221328 [Epic] Mobile VE usability improvements (FY18-19 Q4) | |||
| Resolved | Esanders | T128422 Allow switching between editors with changes on mobile | |||
| Resolved | Esanders | T117716 Be able to switch to VisualEditor after starting to edit a section without losing edits | |||
| Resolved | • matmarex | T222312 Mobile switching with changes from WTE to VE fails on non-RESTBase setups | |||
| Resolved | Esanders | T222315 Abandon changes dialog is inconsistently shown after switching editors on mobile |
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@iamjessklein mentioned this is something to consider for future work in relation to T209955
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This repeatedly came up as problematic for testers performing Section Editing user testing T209986
Here's what it looks like:
- An editor starts editing in Visual Editing mode
- They want to check what it looks like in source (having the mindset that they can seamlessly switch back and forth between modes)
- They click into source mode
- They are prompted to save (publish) their in-progress edit
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NB that when switching from visual section editing to source mode we will have to fall back to full document mode, as changes to a visual section can potentially modify other parts of the document (e.g. deleting a reference could cause it's contents to be moved to another section).
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Change 500981 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Allow a data promise to be passed to wikitext editor
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Change 500982 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Allow switching from mobile visual to mobile source mode with data
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NB that switching from source mode to visual mode while in a section is currently impossible on desktop (T117716), and may require some work on RESTBase to implement this. As mobile always uses section editing in source mode, this means there is currently no easy way to switch from source mode to visual mode.
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Change 500981 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Allow a data promise to be passed to wikitext editor
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Change 500982 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Allow switching from mobile visual to mobile source mode with data
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The patches merged so far implement switching from visual to wikitext, but not in the other direction – looks like that is covered by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/+/503670.
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Change 503670 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Allow wikitext content to be passed to VisualEditor
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Change 503670 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Allow wikitext content to be passed to VisualEditor
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I did some more testing and found a few issues myself, let's fix those before we unleash QA on this. :)
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@ppelberg this task is just waiting for PM Resolution and is one of our usability improvements