Last modified: 2007-12-07 15:36:34 UTC
Created attachment 4415 [details] screen dump · MediaWiki · editing of text areas · 01.jpg Dear friends, In the attachment I have inserted → [[commons:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]] ← The textarea for page editing seems to have same properties as the textarea here in « MediaZilla » where I can not see the « → = → » and « ← = ← » Unicode characters correctly. I see them more or less like a « - minus - » . I assume that after some hours to spend in order to find out how to configure the Linux system from the internetcafé where I am now I could manage to select both an appropriate font and a reasonable font size. But this (configuring systems) should not be the main focus of contributors. It might be a good idea to offer selections for both available fonts and text sizes either in preferences but much better very closed to the textareas. I would not object if the implementation would be done via JavaScript. For the following textareas « id="wpTextbox1" » is already / will be available. See a) action=edit (both unprotected and protected pages) bug xxxxxx (at the time http://test.leuksman.com/extensions/BidiSwitch/switch.js was made) and bug 005611 b) « [[special:Emailuser/Foo]] » bug 012082 c) « [[special:Upload]] » bug 012226 Maybe the JavaScript could be expanded. Thanks for all your efforts in advance! Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]] references: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=Bug+Number&content=wpTextbox1 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&order=Bug+Number&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.leuksman.com%2Fextensions%2FBidiSwitch%2Fswitch.js
Regarding the problems at MediaZilla I will open a report there ( at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ ). The systems I am using during the last weks have very poor font support. For example I can not see the UTF-8 arrow characters at comment #c0 properly. Pages at the WikiMedia Foundation (the UTF-8 characters there) are normal better rendered in the browsers because font-families are carefully specified in these wikis. If this enhancement will be implemented wia JavaScript it might be a good idea to have both the ability to select individual fonts from a list *and* to scroll through the fonts via cursor keys. This would / could render the page localy in that / the next available font.
(In reply to comment #1) > Regarding the problems at MediaZilla I will open a report there ( at > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ ). see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407282 BugZilla Mozilla B u g 407282 – increase legibility in textareas, input fields etc.
