increase legibility in textareas, input fields etc.
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	Dec 7 2007, 4:05 AM

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Author: gangleri

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screen dump · MediaWiki · editing of text areas · 01.jpg

Dear friends,

In the attachment I have inserted

→ [[commons:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]] ←

The textarea for page editing seems to have same properties as the textarea here in « MediaZilla » where I can not see the « → = → » and « ← = ← » Unicode characters correctly. I see them more or less like a « - minus - » .

I assume that after some hours to spend in order to find out how to configure the Linux system from the internetcafé where I am now I could manage to select both an appropriate font and a reasonable font size.

But this (configuring systems) should not be the main focus of contributors. It might be a good idea to offer selections for both available fonts and text sizes either in preferences but much better very closed to the textareas.

I would not object if the implementation would be done via JavaScript.

For the following textareas « id="wpTextbox1" » is already / will be available. See

a) action=edit (both unprotected and protected pages)

bug xxxxxx (at the time http://test.leuksman.com/extensions/BidiSwitch/switch.js was made) and bug 005611

b) « [[special:Emailuser/Foo]] » bug 012082
c) « [[special:Upload]] » bug 012226

Maybe the JavaScript could be expanded.

Thanks for all your efforts in advance!

Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]

references:

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=Bug+Number&content=wpTextbox1
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&order=Bug+Number&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.leuksman.com%2Fextensions%2FBidiSwitch%2Fswitch.js

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Language_user_templates&action=edit

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:56 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.

• bzimport set Reference to bz12227.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Dec 7 2007, 4:05 AM

gangleri wrote:

Regarding the problems at MediaZilla I will open a report there ( at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ ).

The systems I am using during the last weks have very poor font support. For example I can not see the UTF-8 arrow characters at comment #c0 properly.

Pages at the WikiMedia Foundation (the UTF-8 characters there) are normal better rendered in the browsers because font-families are carefully specified in these wikis.

If this enhancement will be implemented wia JavaScript it might be a good idea to have both the ability to select individual fonts from a list *and* to scroll through the fonts via cursor keys. This would / could render the page localy in that / the next available font.

gangleri wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

Regarding the problems at MediaZilla I will open a report there ( at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ ).

see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407282
BugZilla Mozilla B u g 407282 – increase legibility in textareas, input fields etc.

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