Remove HTMLDiff
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	• demon
	Jul 21 2009, 1:30 PM

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HTMLDiff is terribly broken. It's been an i18n nightmare since the start and doesn't function correctly a lot of the time. I think this experimental feature should be removed.

Bugs 18872, 17812 and 15328 can probably be INVALID if we nuke HTMLDiff.

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Severity: enhancement
See also: T20872, T19812, T17328

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Status	Assigned	Task
Declined	None	T21911 HtmlDiff: old text from header change is shown outside the header
Invalid	None	T17328 Visual diff has wrong begin of color coding.
Invalid	None	T20872 "html diff" omits huge portions of changes
Invalid	None	T19812 Diff failed for minimal test case.
Resolved	None	T21859 Remove HTMLDiff

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:39 PM

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

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• demon created this task.Jul 21 2009, 1:30 PM

Created attachment 6378
Remove HTMLDiff Entirely

Remove HTMLDiff and all dependent stuff, nuke UI, nuke $wgEnableHTMLDiff
- Removed $htmldiff param in DifferenceEngine constructor, updated single caller that passed this
Remove now useless Node classes and children, update Autoloader
Nuke all diff-* messages except diff-multi, visualcomparison, visual-comparison and wikicodecomparison

Attached:

nukehtmldiff.patch59 KBDownload

Done in r58267.

Nemo_bis added a parent task: T17328: Visual diff has wrong begin of color coding..Dec 30 2015, 7:52 AM

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Nemo_bis added a parent task: T20872: "html diff" omits huge portions of changes.

Nemo_bis added a parent task: T19812: Diff failed for minimal test case..

Nemo_bis mentioned this in T105173: HTML diffs of edits for everything.Dec 30 2015, 7:54 AM

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