799630 - Source-level change preview

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect, P3)

Description

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Originally filed as a github issue (https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/issues/647).

I made some changes to an article recently and on a later review noticed that the WYSIWYG editor had spread a ton of <code> tags throughout the source - I'd had an unclosed code tag at one point and corrected it but didn't notice that the editor had spread open/close tags through everything which occurred later in the DOM:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/script$compare?to=317979&from=309843

There's a separate complaint about editors but I think the real failure was a concise way to see exactly what I'd changed rather than having to eyeball it visually. Something like a diff view would have come in very handy.

Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

We have the revision dashboards for this now.