Intention:
See if I could reproduce Alex's bug. I could.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Click http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/User:Whatamidoing_(WMF)/Sandbox?veaction=edit or open another page in VisualEditor.
- Click outside the main editing area. For example, highlight part of the page title, or put the cursor in the search box.
- While your cursor is still outside the editing area, click the page options menu (three bars icon) and choose any item. For example, choose "Categories". (Perhaps you just used the search box to figure out how to spell the name of the category you're interested in adding, and that's why your cursor is in the search box.)
Actual Results:
Nothing happens. "Switch to source editing" is the only menu item that produces a response.
Expected Results:
Normal editing behavior. It doesn't matter where my cursor is placed for these items, so they shouldn't care.
Reproducible: Always
Confirmed in Safari 6 and Firefox 28 on Mac OS 10.8.5, and assumed to affect everything.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63954