Maniphest T196715

Drag-dropping or copy-pasting an external link from one VE-MW surface onto another one loses the link
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	matmarex
	Jun 8 2018, 12:51 AM

Description

To reproduce:

In one browser window, an article with an external link
In another browser window, open a page in VE-MW
Select the link and drag-drop it onto the VE surface

Result:

The external link is lost

~~Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SLF9f4fToW9zgT6KDtHOGDZUL_rZ2_ln/view?usp=sharing (too large for Phab)~~

~~The same issue occurs with drag-drop between VE-MW surfaces, but~~ it doesn't occur for copy-paste between VE-MW surfaces.

Edit: Updated description as stripping external link of import from plain CE is desired behaviour - Ed

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		Open		None	T196715 Drag-dropping or copy-pasting an external link from one VE-MW surface onto another one loses the link
		Resolved		matmarex	T129546 Support preserving external links in pasted HTML content

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matmarex created this task.Jun 8 2018, 12:51 AM

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(For context, I noticed this when reviewing https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/436611/.)

This is the same as paste, and is deliberate:

blacklist: [
			// Annotations
			'link/mwExternal', 'textStyle/span', 'textStyle/font', 'textStyle/underline', 'meta/language', 'textStyle/datetime',

although this rule is definitely designed with Wikipedia's in mind.

It is not the same as paste, because copy-pasting external links between VE-MW surfaces works. It's a problem with drag-drop from plain CE to VE-MW, and with copy-paste from plain CE or from VE-MW to VE-MW. The inconsistency is weird.

The example you give is from a plain CE surface, where the links are stripped whether you paste or drop.

To support VE->VE we'd need to set a custom key, like we do with copy.

Esanders triaged this task as Low priority.Jun 14 2018, 5:29 PM

Esanders renamed this task from Drag-dropping or copy-pasting an external link from contenteditable onto VE-MW surface loses the annotation to Drag-dropping or copy-pasting an external link from one VE-MW surface onto another one loses the link.Jun 14 2018, 5:32 PM

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CommunityTechBot renamed this task from 0ebaaaaaaa to Drag-dropping or copy-pasting an external link from one VE-MW surface onto another one loses the link.Jul 2 2018, 12:43 PM

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