Bugs in "Live preview" feature (tracking)
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	saper
	Aug 11 2012, 9:15 PM

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Conversion of this tracking task to a project is discussing at T192074

This bug tracks all problems related to the "Live preview" feature that can be enabled in the preferences under "Editing".

RFC (later withdrawn): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Live_preview

URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Live_preview

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Reference: bz39272

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T60082 TimedMediaHandler injects too many JavaScript configuration variables
Declined		None	T98969 Video files do not play through the embedded player on EducationProgram and other fake pages
Resolved		TheDJ	T51751 Ajax "This file already exists" doesn't load image related js (e.g. from TMH)
Invalid		None	T41272 Bugs in "Live preview" feature (tracking)
Resolved		None	T10618 Live Preview doesn't reload Edit Summary preview; no way to use standard preview when Live Preview is enabled
Resolved		None	T27830 LivePreview makes page "jump"
Resolved		TheDJ	T26134 LivePreview: styles added by extensions are missing
Resolved		Krinkle	T35399 LivePreview: Re-run wikipage content handlers (jquery.makeCollapsible, jquery.tablesorter, ..) after preview content is loaded
Resolved		None	T41273 "Show changes" should not be incorrectly displayed in the Live Preview state
Resolved		None	T53770 TemplateData styles are missing on live preview
Resolved		None	T43655 User script preview do not work if "tog-uselivepreview" is enabled
Resolved		TheDJ	T55918 Collapsible lists on edit page footer no longer collapsible after live preview is used
Resolved		Krinkle	T53583 Add more mw.hook events for wikipage: diff, categories etc.
Resolved		matmarex	T45981 Live preview should be disabled if it can't preview the current content (user scripts specifically)
Resolved		Fomafix	T61015 Show DISPLAYTITLE on livepreview
Resolved		Fomafix	T56437 Table of contents interaction should be rebound on livepreview
Resolved		Ltrlg	T53029 livePreview make 'Language settings' icon disappear
Resolved		Krinkle	T32713 Add mw.hook event for wikipage content ready
Resolved		Krinkle	T25580 Implement JavaScript mw.hooks framework
Resolved		TheDJ	T55327 Live preview leaves min-height block when previewing changes
Resolved		Fomafix	T62030 toc hide on live preview doesn't work anymore
Resolved		Fomafix	T62036 LivePreview: Wrong skin when using useskin
Resolved		TheDJ	T74675 Dynamically loading TimedMediaHandler for new content (preview)
Resolved		TheDJ	T60085 TimedMediaHandler should not add start-up scripts
Resolved		TheDJ	T75618 "Script error" is not clickable when using MediaWiki's live-preview feature.
Resolved		Fomafix	T84836 LivePreview: Since 1.25wmf12 the preview of the summary does not get updated on "Show changes"
Resolved		TheDJ	T84877 LivePreview: Since 1.25wmf12 in 'section=new' mode the section header is not shown
Duplicate		None	T84883 Pressing "Show changes" doesn't show "Preview of edit summary"
Resolved		TheDJ	T78709 New improved LivePreview incompatible with ProofreadPage's fancy forms for Index: namespace pages
Resolved		Fomafix	T78838 LivePreview: no changes reflected on preview/diff when using CodeEditor
Resolved		None	T78834 LivePreview: duplicate 'templates used on this page' list
Duplicate		None	T86697 Live preview does not update page status indicators
Resolved		Fomafix	T87557 LivePreview does not show page status indicators
Resolved		Fomafix	T103661 Reimplement Sanitizer::escapeId in JavaScript
Resolved		Fomafix	T85784 LivePreview should not replace title message with displaytitle value in firstHeading
Resolved		Fomafix	T85531 LivePreview: Preview of a redirect is not shown as a redirect
Resolved		Fomafix	T88117 Update HTML title with displaytitle on live preview
Resolved		Fomafix	T89941 LivePreview should not show edit section buttons
Resolved		TheDJ	T90490 LivePreview should give feedback when failing
Resolved		TheDJ	T90808 With MathJax and live preview enabled, math is displayed properly only the first time you click "preview" in a new article
Resolved		TheDJ	T90851 LivePreview fires wikipage.content hook before attaching content, which breaks some scripts
Duplicate		None	T91046 Parser profiling data should remain collapsible when using LivePreview
Resolved		TheDJ	T91167 LivePreview does not show Preview header nor preview warning
Declined		Krinkle	T95711 LivePreview: Page heading for "Creating" should support parser functions
Resolved		TheDJ	T98656 "Use live preview" option does not show Graphs
Resolved		TheDJ	T92944 Live preview should process JSConfigVars
Resolved		Anomie	T67015 API: Add jsconfigvars to action=parse
Resolved		Anomie	T76728 Clean up ApiResult and ApiFormatXml, create new formatversion
Resolved		Anomie	T85236 Better unit testing for ApiFormat*
Resolved		EBernhardson	T90745 Flow ApiFlowModerateTopicTest::testModerateTopic() assumes ApiResult will pass through arbitrary objects
Resolved		Anomie	T98083 add checkbox to ApiSandbox to use formatversion=2
Resolved		Anomie	T98086 improve RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 for formatversion=2 change
Resolved		Nardog	T102286 Live Preview does not show the "Templates used in this preview" when section-editing
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Fomafix	T105214 Preview shows wikitext instead of page title on test.wikipedia.org
Invalid		Aklapper	T123061 Live preview does not display map (from Mapframe template) on English wikivoyage
Resolved		Fomafix	T149816 LivePreview substitutes $$ by $ in summary preview
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T171156 Live preview does not show the preview of the summary anymore
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T171176 Rename the "live preview" feature to reflect what it is (it's inline, not live)
Duplicate		None	T176558 AJAX "Show changes" doesn't work when creating a page: "TypeError: response[0].query.pages[0].revisions is undefined"
Resolved		Daimona	T109166 Live preview "Show changes" indicates no changes in on new pages
Resolved		Func	T184466 Live preview doesn’t use new versions of templates embedded in themselves
Resolved		Fomafix	T185683 Add uselang parameter to live preview diff requests
Resolved		TheDJ	T190120 Parse warnings not visible with live preview
Duplicate	BUG REPORT	None	T260500 Live preview fails to prevent itself from executing when previewing a user CSS/JS more than once
Resolved		Nardog	T186390 Javascript preview feature broken when live previews are enabled
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Daimona	T284625 Live preview should respect user's language variant setting
Resolved		Samwilson	T117549 Do not generate warning on parameter `variant` for API requests
Resolved		eranroz	T266738 Diff for Lua code module should always have LTR dir when using the inline preview tool
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Daimona	T292362 Signatures and substitutions remain unparsed in live diff
Resolved		Daimona	T293022 LivePreview doesn't work with ProofreadPage pages
Resolved		Fomafix	T293307 Header of diff in the editor missing when using live preview
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Fomafix	T293597 Live Preview: "Show changes" does not reset the diff area when there are no differences
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Nardog	T293892 Live preview fails when section=new&nosummary=1
Resolved	Feature	Ammarpad	T293930 Support live diff for creating a new section
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Jdlrobson	T300814 Live preview doesn't work with Vector 2022 skin
Resolved		Samwilson	T321032 When using preview, the edit link and protection status is lost in "Template used in this preview"
Resolved	BUG REPORT	TheresNoTime	T334518 Hidden Categories below the templates in edit isn't greyed out while loading
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Ammarpad	T333808 Live preview incorrectly shows transclusions that are blue links in red
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Samwilson	T335624 Live preview can send hundreds of requests at once to get protection level messages
Declined	BUG REPORT	None	T325327 MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview is not parsed in Realtime Preview
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Samwilson	T327354 Real-time preview (and live preview) don’t highlight redirects in italic
Resolved	BUG REPORT	None	T315746 In edit preview, always sort the template list in alphabetical order
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Nardog	T277359 Lua logs not collapsible in live preview
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Nardog	T340900 Summary preview is missing when using live diff
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Nardog	T346524 Live diff doesn't show current content if the page was created after editing started
Resolved	BUG REPORT	matmarex	T347233 InputBox button not stylized in live preview
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Nardog	T347782 Live diff incorrectly shows blanking as "no difference"
Resolved	BUG REPORT	TheDJ	T353973 Kartographer preview context menu not working for live previews
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Nardog	T359285 Label for list of transclusions is not consistent between live and non-live preview

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WikiEditor's live preview was removed completely in rEWED77cea2697cc4: Drop the never-finished "Labs" publish and preview features.

Fomafix closed subtask T185683: Add uselang parameter to live preview diff requests as Resolved.Jan 25 2018, 8:07 PM

Aklapper added a subtask: T190120: Parse warnings not visible with live preview.Mar 20 2018, 8:53 AM

Please consider remaking this into a project, the table with listed tasks is unreadable right now for me and I would guess many others on similar page widths (1366px).