Nothing shown in visual diff when editing invisible templates
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Description

On FF56/Mac OS 10.12.15 when you edit the first template of a page, it shows a comment annotating an empty space and shows no content apart from the infobox.

Steps to reproduces

Go to edit the Grace Sherwood article
Edit the Pp-protected template, changing the expiry year from 2017 to 2018
Review your changes, your wikitext diff should look like:

Problems

No way of telling what is happening without looking at the sidebar.
Doesn't tell which template changed.
Doesn't tell which parameters changed.

(from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Prtksxna/VeDiff#Edit_first_template )

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	Esanders	T170107 Nothing shown in visual diff when editing invisible templates
Resolved	Esanders	T194410 VisualDiff: Re-consider using converter's "clipboard mode" to speed up rendering
Resolved	Esanders	T94130 Tech debt: Devise a stable way to create previews for ce nodes

Event Timeline

Prtksxna created this task.Jul 10 2017, 8:39 AM

Restricted Application added a project: VisualEditor. · View Herald TranscriptJul 10 2017, 8:39 AM

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Prtksxna updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 10 2017, 8:41 AM

Prtksxna added subscribers: Esanders, Tchanders.

Prtksxna updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 10 2017, 8:44 AM

The problem is the template is invisible in the main document - in this case it only outputs to <indicators>

Deskana triaged this task as Low priority.Jul 18 2017, 7:17 PM

Deskana moved this task from To Triage to TR6: Visual diffs on the VisualEditor board.

Prtksxna updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 20 2017, 11:04 AM

Borrowing the yellow from T169325, and the icons from T170134 we could:

Deskana set the point value for this task to 1.Aug 23 2017, 3:46 PM

Esanders added a subtask: T194410: VisualDiff: Re-consider using converter's "clipboard mode" to speed up rendering.May 10 2018, 3:53 PM

Esanders mentioned this in T194410: VisualDiff: Re-consider using converter's "clipboard mode" to speed up rendering.

Change 432399 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Use CE rendering for invisible templates

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/432399

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 10 2018, 4:22 PM

Describing the param changes was fixed in T188389 - although we could yet consider the red/green highlights...

After:

@Esanders

Deskana closed subtask T194410: VisualDiff: Re-consider using converter's "clipboard mode" to speed up rendering as Resolved.May 14 2018, 1:43 PM

Change 432399 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Use CE rendering for invisible templates

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/432399

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.32-notes (WMF-deploy-2018-05-22 (1.32.0-wmf.5)).May 18 2018, 7:01 PM

matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Jun 14 2018, 6:55 PM

matmarex assigned this task to Esanders.

matmarex edited projects, added VisualEditor (Current work); removed VisualEditor.

Deskana moved this task from Incoming to Product owner review on the VisualEditor (Current work) board.Jun 18 2018, 1:06 PM

• Vvjjkkii reopened subtask T194410: VisualDiff: Re-consider using converter's "clipboard mode" to speed up rendering as Open.Jul 1 2018, 1:10 AM

CommunityTechBot closed subtask T194410: VisualDiff: Re-consider using converter's "clipboard mode" to speed up rendering as Resolved.Jul 2 2018, 3:15 PM

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