It is no longer possible to click links within visualeditor's popupWidget
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	Quiddity
	Fri, Jun 21, 12:57 AM

Description

Steps to replicate the issue :

Edit an article in Visualeditor, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foobar&veaction=edit
Click on a footnote-link, e.g. [1]
Try to click on any links that appear within the reference's popupWidget

What happens?:

Nothing

What should have happened instead?:

The links should be clickable and should open in a new tab

(Tested in both the latest Firefox and Chromium)

Originally noticed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Bugs_persisting_after_last_week

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Re-enable pointer events in reference preview	mediawiki/extensions/Cite	master	+0 -2

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Event Timeline

Quiddity created this task.Fri, Jun 21, 12:57 AM

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Caused by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Cite/+/1043758

I'm not sure I understand the user story behind this. This is a preview in the context of VisualEditor's editing UX. Not the Popups extension. Interacting with the content in the context of VisualEditor is done via the "Edit" button.

Users expect to be able to follow the links in the preview - to check on the source while editing. Link contexts work the same way. If you feel this functionality needs to change we should file a task explicitly for that and discuss the pros and cons there.

Change #1048420 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/Cite@master] Re-enable pointer events in reference preview

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1048420

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Fri, Jun 21, 11:51 AM

DLynch assigned this task to Esanders.Fri, Jun 21, 1:02 PM

DLynch added projects: Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board).

DLynch moved this task from Incoming to QA on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

Change #1048420 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Cite@master] Re-enable pointer events in reference preview

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1048420

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Fri, Jun 21, 1:30 PM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25).Fri, Jun 21, 2:00 PM

Quiddity updated the task description. (Show Details)Fri, Jun 21, 5:34 PM

Bolideleoi subscribed.Sun, Jun 23, 8:35 AM

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EAkinloose moved this task from QA to Ready for Sign Off on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.Mon, Jun 24, 4:54 AM

Adding User-notice as it is a bug affecting all wikis.

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It is no longer possible to click links within visualeditor's popupWidgetOpen, Needs TriagePublicBUG REPORTActions

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It is no longer possible to click links within visualeditor's popupWidget
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