Last modified: 2012-12-04 23:10:34 UTC
MediaWiki lets users with double-click editing enabled edit pages just by double-clicking anywhere on the page. But I would appreciate it if, when you double-click to edit, the editing textbox automatically highlighted the word you double-clicked. See also related idea: bug 9367.
This would require wrapping every word in some kind of <span> with attached information about where in the source text it occurred. Even if we could figure out how to do that in the parser, it would increase our bandwidth requirements several times, costing us tens of thousands of dollars per month. So... probably not right now. :)
*** Bug 9367 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm not 100% sure but it seems you don't have use DIVs. A Google search for: javascript "clicked word" finds a variety of relevant results. So, I am taking the liberty of reopening this. Anyway, even if you choose not to provide word-level granularity, you could still provide paragraph-level granularity; it probably wouldn't be as hard.
The basic problem is we currently have no idea what parts of the rendered page correspond to what parts of the markup. Some parts may be templates, for instance, or any number of other things. Plausibly future improvements in Web technology or how pages are stored or something might make this possible, so I'll call it LATER, but this is not practical at the moment. If you disagree, please provide a patch to the code that will implement this. Do not reopen this bug otherwise.
(In reply to comment #4) > The basic problem is we currently have no idea what parts of the rendered page correspond to what > parts of the markup. Some parts may be templates, for instance, or any number of other things. ... If the feature I am requesting only worked 95% of the time, that would still be wonderful. (Then, later on, if the parser were made to output <span class="template"> tags as [[meta:WYSIWYG editor]] describes, the feature could be improved and made to work all the time. Why is a 95% solution unacceptable?
(In reply to comment #5) > Why is a 95% solution unacceptable? Because people expect 100% & will file bug reports about the remaining 5%. Moving from deprecated "LATER" to "WONTFIX" resolution as per comments.
I thank you all for your feedback on this bug. I've just filed an easier-to-implement alternative: Bug 42701: "When I double-click to edit, please scroll the edit area to the section I double-clicked".
