Not sure if this is possible, but a user raises concerns about the behavior of VE opening the whole page for editing instead of editing specific sections, given that it increases the load time.
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Not sure if this is possible, but a user raises concerns about the behavior of VE opening the whole page for editing instead of editing specific sections, given that it increases the load time.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
wikipedia wrote:
To reproduce:
What happens:
What should happen:
Note that this constitutes the interface basically lying about what it's going to do, hence its disconcerting nature.
It also means that more bandwidth is consumed than the user asked for, which could be a problem in some cases (particularly on slow connections).
On busy pages it is likely to lead to more edit conflicts, due to increased load times and encouragement to edit multiple sections.