How about disable the editable mode when user views source (if he/she can not edit the page)?
2011/4/13 Brion Vibber <br...@pobox.com> > While pondering some directions for rapid prototyping of new UI stuff, I > found myself lamenting the difficulty of editing JS and CSS code for > user/site scripts and gadgets: > > * lots of little things to separately click and edit for gadgets > * no syntax highlighting in the edit box > * no indication of obvious syntax errors, leading to frequent edit->preview > cycles (especially if you have to turn the gadget back off to edit > successfully!) > * no automatic indentation! > * can't use the tab key > > Naturally, I thought it might be wise to start doing something about it. > I've made a small gadget script which hooks into editing of JS and CSS > pages, and embeds the ACE code editor (http://ace.ajax.org -- a component > of > the Cloud9 IDE, formerly Skywriter formerly Mozilla Bespin). This doesn't > fix the usability issues in Special:Gadgets, but it's a heck of a lot more > pleasant to edit the gadget's JS and CSS once you get there. :) > > The gadget is available on www.mediawiki.org on the 'Gadgets' tab of > preferences. Note that I'm currently loading the ACE JavaScript from > toolserver.org, so you may see a mixed-mode content warning if you're > editing via secure.wikimedia.org. (Probably an easy fix.) > > Go try it out! > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-CodeEditor.js > > IE 8 kind of explodes and I haven't had a chance to test IE9 yet, but it > seems pretty consistently nice on current Firefox and Chrome and (barring > some cut-n-paste troubles) Opera. > > I'd really love to be able to use more content-specific editing tools like > this, and using Gadgets is a good way to make this sort of tool available > for testing in a real environment -- especially once we devise some ways to > share gadgets across all sites more easily. I'll be similarly Gadget-izing > the SVG-Edit widget that I've previously done as an extension so folks can > play with it while it's still experimental, but we'll want to integrate > them > better as time goes on. > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
