Description

User:Jo-Jo Eumerus reports that she is losing work when switching between wikitext and visual editing. Instead of content being preserved, switching makes her lose some of her work.

She is running the latest version of Firefox on Windows 10, with Vector. Her contributions indicate that she's using one of the older wikitext editors, and it's very likely the 2010 wikitext editor. See description at WP:VPT.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	DesktopArticleTarget.init: always bind to #ca-edit	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+13 -1

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Mentioned In: T199554: Switching between visual editor and source mode gives error message
Mentioned Here: T199554: Switching between visual editor and source mode gives error message

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Also occurs to me and reported on the Finnish Wikipedia:
https://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Kahvihuone_(tekniikka)&oldid=17439681#Visuaalisesta_muokkaustilasta_wikitekstin_muokkaustilaan_vaihtaminen_ei_toimi
It came with the latest Firefox.

• Whatamidoing-WMF added a project: Browser-Support-Firefox.Jul 17 2018, 6:12 PM

I can't reproduce this with Chrome or Firefox on my Mac. I don't have access to my Windows machine right now. Regardless, data loss bugs need investigation.

I created a video to show the problem (https://youtu.be/2akrQGSWSUY).

Not firefox specific. It does require that you have both multiple edit tabs, not be using NWE, and trigger the switch by clicking the "edit source" tab rather than through VE's menus, though, which I suspect is why Dan couldn't reproduce it.

Change 450160 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; owner: DLynch):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] DesktopArticleTarget.init: always bind to #ca-edit

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450160

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 2 2018, 10:08 PM

matmarex moved this task from In progress to Code review on the VisualEditor (Current work) board.Aug 8 2018, 8:42 PM

matmarex mentioned this in T199554: Switching between visual editor and source mode gives error message.Aug 9 2018, 9:13 PM

Change 450160 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] DesktopArticleTarget.init: always bind to #ca-edit

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450160

matmarex moved this task from Code review to QA on the VisualEditor (Current work) board.Aug 9 2018, 10:37 PM

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