| jrbs | |
| May 2 2017, 9:34 PM |
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| May 2 2017, 9:34 PM |
Right now, the Translate extension will tell you when parentheses are unbalanced.
This is great! But it does so as you are typing, which means the text box is pushed up/down the page unexpectedly which makes it difficult to press the "Save translation" button or to click elsewhere in the box, since things move around.
It would be great if this message only appeared after a larger timespan has passed to prevent this.
Delaying it until save button is clicked would be counterproductive, as the editor is hidden when the button is clicked. The translator would not see the notice.
Delaying it until save button is clicked would be counterproductive, as the editor is hidden when the button is clicked.
Agreed. If possible, it's nice to wait a couple seconds (or when the user has paused typing for a fraction of second), as I think core now does in Special:UserLogin before throwing warnings about usernames.
Change 823140 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amire80; author: Amire80):
[mediawiki/extensions/Translate@master] Increase the time to display a warning to 2 seconds
Change 823140 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Translate@master] Increase the time to display a warning to 2 seconds
Quadrupling is a big change. Please test carefully that this does not make translators miss warnings more often.
I'm noticing that its quite easy to miss this warning now. I think we should tweak this some more.
Change 843405 had a related patch set uploaded (by Wangombe; author: Wangombe):
[mediawiki/extensions/Translate@master] Decrease time to display warning on uneven parenthesis
Change 843405 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Translate@master] Tux: Decrease time to display validation warnings to 1 second
Tested on translatewiki with positive results. The wait time is not too long nor too short for 'key-up' event to respond with a warning in the event parenthesis are not even.