Last modified: 2014-11-17 16:23:50 UTC
When dragging an item in the visual editor (tested with image and text), the editing window does not scroll up or down when you reach the top or bottom of the window. This means you have to make several consecutive drag and drop actions to move an item within a long article/section. Per Bug 51665 the image must be separately selected before you are able to drag it (i.e. each movement requires two mouse clicks).
Forgot to note this is on Firefox 22 on Xubuntu Linux
Confirmed that this also occurs on Firefox 22 and Chrome 28 on Windows 7
fwiw I believe this bug has been mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#VisualEditor_weekly_update_-_2013-09-26_.28MW_1.22wmf19.29 The users poses "a challenge" consisting in dragging the <languages /> bar at [[mw:Groups]] from the bottom of the page to the top, which implies dragging. A more probable use case it to move pictures from one section to another.
While the above is correct insofar that dragging beyond the page boundaries doesn't work (apparently not an urgent problem?), the "challenge" was to get the "language" template back at the bottom of the page. You can't do this by dragging, even if you stay in the same window. You can use some unintuitive workarounds (which you can find for yourselves), but the basic functionality doesn't work, just like most of the basic functionality of MW 1.22wmf19. has anyone tested ''anything'' in this release related to VE? Anything at all? Since it was "very" easy to find many problems with it in half an hour of testing. Back to the drawing boards please.
(In reply to comment #4) > the "challenge" was to get > the "language" template back at the bottom of the page. You can't do this by > dragging, even if you stay in the same window. I think I know what you mean and I have filed a report about it at Bug 54756. Good catch! Thank you. Also, setting the priority back to Normal since this is usually decided by the developer or team working on a specific report. Thank you for your understanding.
Problem encounter at FF 24.0 Windows Vista. As I cant add a template, per this bug: http://imgbin.org/index.php?page=image&id=15296 I have to use the method of placing the template on the top and scroll down. Thus this behaviour is blocking me in activity in VE.
*** Bug 63170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I found this a problem to. When additing using just a touchpad or not having a scroll option on the mouse, you have a difficulties to move and object.
This was fixed over the Summer.
Just tested this, I can scroll up, with some difficulty ( by positioning the cursor on the top toolbar), but scrolling down does not seem possible. Additionally, in most drag and drop interfaces I can be dragging and use a two finger, gesture based scroll while dragging, this does not work on VE (Chrome Version 39.0.2171.52 beta (64-bit) / OS X 10.10 )
So I'm not sure I'm adding to the right bug, but I don't seem to be able to drag templates or images beyond the bottom of the window (and even beyond the top when I tested this the other way around) with the mouse. I tried this in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Elitre_%28WMF%29/sandbox with Chrome and Firefox.
