Some IMEs change the text at a location that is not adjacent to the cursor. This causes a complex transaction to be created, which ultimately causes a re-render that closes the IME candidate window.
We should change the logic so that simple transactions can cover this sort of change.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diff richtext to build model changes | VisualEditor/VisualEditor | master | +986 -16 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Release | None | T84936 Release VisualEditor-MediaWiki as "1.0" | ||
| Resolved | dchan | T76056 Non-local text changes cause CE updates that close IME candidate window | |||
| Resolved | dchan | T114260 Observed changes: widen heuristic criteria for guessing a change is simple |
Change 247800 had a related patch set uploaded (by Divec):
Diff richtext to build model changes
With change 247800, every observed DOM change should be simple (i.e. the DOM should never require re-rendering from the DM in response to observed DOM changes).