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VisualEditor: Highlight changes made since save in some way (e.g. with a text-background?) so users can see what changes they have outstanding
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Description

From a VE test page:

Perhaps a different colour font as you are editing...so you could keep track of what you're doing (TG)

Not sure if we'd want to do this.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60535

Details

Reference
bz37931

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 12:26 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz37931.
  • Bug 37903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Perhaps the way to do this is to use the same visual clues that are used when using revision tracking in OOo Writer, MS Word etc. Particularly if they use the same markings as each other.

(In reply to comment #2)

Perhaps the way to do this is to use the same visual clues that are used when
using revision tracking in OOo Writer, MS Word etc. Particularly if they use
the same markings as each other.

Word does a thin line (1px wide, maybe) down the outer column of a page to indicate changed lines, in both the desktop and print versions, I believe, by default.

  • Bug 65247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:14 AM