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Refers to the views that show revision differences and suggested edit changes in various ways by breaking them down into additions and deletions.
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Double title in Stack Apps revisions
On Stack Apps posts where the title was changed (example), I see the title duplicated like this:
It happens on all diff types (with slightly differing appearances), and when I don't see it, ...
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What display size, viewport, or platform does the the "Suggested edits" interface target?
The interface shows a diff between two versions of the post by way of creating two frames, each with its own horizontal scroll bar.
On my desktop monitor, that two-frame comparison is constrained to ...
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Edit review page: looks like all tags gone
No big deal, but here with the side by side display, a quick look gives the false impression that all the tags were removed in the new version.
So perhaps it would be best to repeat them anyway, in ...
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Which engine does Stack Overflow use to generate edit history? [duplicate]
What is the engine that Stack Overflow uses for the comparison of the two question versions? Below is an example from Math Stack Exchange:
I'd like to use a similar solution for my website, but ...
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Changing the type of diff view on revisions that don't change the post's rendered output doesn't work, and may cause excessive load on SE's servers
On post revisions that don't change the post's rendered output, such as addition/removal/edits of HTML comments, changing inline links to footnote links, changing image descriptions, etc., the toggle ...
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Changing the order of items in an ordered list incorrectly shows additional list items in the inline diff view
I have an ordered list of 3 items below. However, I later realized that the item which I initially wrote as the first in the list is actually the least important and should be at the end, so I edited ...
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Diff doesn't take stripped HTML tags into account
Yesterday I edited this question to correct the display of something in angle brackets, <root_music_folder>. The Markdown parser thinks it's an HTML tag, it's not on the allow list so it strips ...
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Remove the strikethrough on deleted text in suggested edits
I initially posted this on MathematicsMeta where it was relatively well received (+20/-0), then I thought to post it here since it relates to multiple sites - possibly all sites, at least all sites ...
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Alignment bug of Run Code Snippet buttons after approving suggested edit
I approved a suggested edit on this post by clicking the edit link directly on the post. After approving the edit it seems the "Run code snippet" buttons are vertically aligned in the diff ...
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Markdown diff shows headers changed, but only body text changed [duplicate]
On the revision history for this post, there are a couple edits which show changes to headers when viewed Inline:
But when switching to the Side-by-side Markdown diff, it appears the changes only ...
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Revision histories of posts show headings being removed and re-added every single revision, even if they aren't changed
If a post has heading markup and has been edited, the revision histories' inline and side-by-side views seem to show them all changing on each and every edit, even though they aren't edited at all. (...
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Sometimes diff isn't shown in edits to code inside source fences
It seems the visual highlight of revision/code differences in source fences is currently broken for some posts in the suggested edits review queue.
Example 1. In this post. The 3rd line of code was ...
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Incorrect revision diff for lists
In the second revision of my post I've added two links as list items and removed a sentence. The Markdown diff looks fine:
But the inline and two-column mode diffs look weird:
The first eight list ...
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Markdown diff displays changes, but there are no changes
Revision #2 for the answer in side-by-side markdown mode shows diff at the top and at the end of the post:
The only change here is adding a status-planned tag (for some reason with backslashes) at the ...
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Code marked as deleted does not look good in side by side markdown view in dark mode
Can't see deleted code
I have come across a situation in dark mode. This is a serious contrast problem according to the following preview:
It is too expensive to distinguish the text from the ...