Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Editing/Support multiple diff variants

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Support multiple diff variants

  • Problem: We currently have a side by side comparison for diffs, but this often makes it difficult for people to find small changes inside a sentence. For a long time many editors have been using wikEdDiff, navigation popups diff and other JS based inline diffs, to gain more insight into changes.
  • Who would benefit: Editors and curators
  • Proposed solution: Add a toggle to a diff, to switch from viewing the difference in split (current) mode, to viewing it in unified mode. We can even add a third button for visual diffs, when this becomes more widely available. Take inspiration from github. In the past often performance has been a blocker for alternate diff views. To counter this, only do the inline diff on the client side on demand, instead of the server side.
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  • Phabricator tickets:

Discussion[edit]

Potentially related Phabricator tickets: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?ids=156439,26617,146781,7072,15462#R --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A notice: there is a similar proposal in the section Reading, namely Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Reading#Simple_diff Simple diff. --Vachovec1 (talk) 14:47, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Related: T38902, T117279 --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 09:44, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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