Scroll to an item when it is selected e.g. when it has been newly inserted
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The bug 51905 made me realize of a potential problem. When a media, say an image, is inserted, sometimes it may be inserted outside the field of view of the user, and this may lead some users to think that it wasn't inserted at all, causing aborted edits, confusion, frustration, and even bad edits. For example if there is an infobox in the article, or a bunch of images aligned to the right, then if the user inserts an image, in many cases it will be inserted below all this, and the user will not see it without scrolling the screen.

The solution to this potential problem is, I think, fairly simple: make the VisualEditor detect if the image is in the field of view of the user, and if it's not, then scroll the screen so that it is!

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58091

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Reference: bz51911

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Scroll the selection into view when it is outside the window	VisualEditor/VisualEditor	master	+7 -1

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		None	T60091 VisualEditor: History actions should scroll the location of the transaction into view (unless it's a meta-data transaction which has no location?)
		Resolved		Mooeypoo	T53911 Scroll to an item when it is selected e.g. when it has been newly inserted

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:05 AM

• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-EditingTools.

• bzimport set Reference to bz51911.

Sophivorus created this task.Jul 23 2013, 9:22 PM

I experienced the same problem in bug 51863.

A auto-disappearing popup notice "Your image has been inserted; scroll down to see it." would help.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.Nov 23 2014, 10:48 PM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Nov 24 2014, 1:26 AM

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from VisualEditor: Scroll to item when it has been newly-inserted to Scroll to an item when it is selected e.g. when it has been newly inserted.Feb 24 2015, 6:33 PM

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Jdforrester-WMF added a parent task: T60091: VisualEditor: History actions should scroll the location of the transaction into view (unless it's a meta-data transaction which has no location?).

Jdforrester-WMF merged a task: T90371: Scroll highlighted node into view.

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Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Freezer to TR6: Visual diffs on the VisualEditor board.Mar 10 2015, 5:43 PM