Last modified: 2013-07-02 19:27:12 UTC
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. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback&oldid=562566677#edit_one_section_only
To reproduce: 1. Visit a page, eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2#Legal_challenges 2. Hover over the section "[ edit ]" 3. Expands to "[ edit | edit source ]" (both with equivalent URLs) 4. Observe that the link is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2?veaction=edit&vesection=6 5. Click the link. What happens: 6. The page jumps 7. The page freezes 8. The page is partially whited-out 9. (If it happens to complete loading). A massive toolbar obscures where the cursor was. What should happen: 6. The page should remain exactly where it was, it should not move 7. The page should remain interactive 8. The page should remain readable 9. The editor (visual or textedit) should correspond to only that section.
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.
Is this a dupe of bug 48429?
Looks like it, yes! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 48429 ***
