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Bug 39591 - VisualEditor: Link inspector should abridge completion results so users can distinguish multiple very long similar titles
VisualEditor: Link inspector should abridge completion results so users can d...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Unprioritized enhancement
: VE-deploy-2012-09-17
Assigned To: Rob Moen
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Reported: 2012-08-23 19:09 UTC by James Forrester
Modified: 2012-09-17 16:55 UTC (History)
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Description James Forrester 2012-08-23 19:09:38 UTC 
Proposal is to automatically put the ellipsis in the middle rather than at the end of the string.
Comment 1 Krinkle 2012-08-24 15:10:17 UTC 
I agree, I've been seeing this in other places as well. I can't recall where I saw it but I was using my iPod touch and saw some autocompletion list use ellipsis in the middle and thought it was brilliant.

When using long titles the beginning will be the same, especially knowing that our list will be in alphabetical order (as opposed to search rank or whatever, which is what a search engine's suggestions would/could be) it is very likely and worth optimizing for.

Sounds like a good feature to implement in the jquery.autoEllipsis plugin we maintain in MediaWiki.
Comment 2 James Forrester 2012-09-10 18:37:59 UTC 
Already fixed in master.
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