VisualEditor: Highlight changes made since save in some way (e.g. with a text-background?) so users can see what changes they have outstanding
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	Jdforrester-WMF
	Jun 25 2012, 4:52 PM

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From a VE test page:

Perhaps a different colour font as you are editing...so you could keep track of what you're doing (TG)

Not sure if we'd want to do this.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60535

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Reference: bz37931

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T143350: Let users choose a visual or wikitext diff in the review-your-changes tab
T57370: [Epic] VisualEditor: Implement some form of auto-save to help with browser crash recovery and accidental tab closing
T62535: VisualEditor: Add a Preview feature to show actual version of page (minus slugs, etc.)

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 12:26 AM

• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-MediaWiki.

• bzimport set Reference to bz37931.

Jdforrester-WMF created this task.Jun 25 2012, 4:52 PM

Bug 37903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Perhaps the way to do this is to use the same visual clues that are used when using revision tracking in OOo Writer, MS Word etc. Particularly if they use the same markings as each other.

(In reply to comment #2)

Perhaps the way to do this is to use the same visual clues that are used when
using revision tracking in OOo Writer, MS Word etc. Particularly if they use
the same markings as each other.

Word does a thin line (1px wide, maybe) down the outer column of a page to indicate changed lines, in both the desktop and print versions, I believe, by default.