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Google Summer of Code 2013: RTL Support for MediaWiki’s Visual Editor
This year I had the distinct privilege of being accepted to the Google Summer of Code summer internship, working for the Wikimedia Foundation. I will be responsible for improving Right-to-Left support...
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The Issues of Coordinate Systems (or: Mirroring XY, Oh My!)
I’ve spent a lot of my Physics education dealing with calculations. Calculating positions of objects as they move in space, particles in some electric field, planets around a certain star, and more,...
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Element Positioning: .css( ‘left’ ) vs .position().left (Or: Making Element...
I sit in front of my trusty computer, coding-away right-to-left popup-location fixes in anticipation of the new VisualEditor deployment in the Hebrew Wikipedia. The hard part, I tell myself (and with...
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The Language Double-Take: Dealing with Bidirectional Text (or: Wait, ?tahW)
English is written left to right. Hebrew is written right to left. We know that. Browsers (for the most part) know that too, just like they know that the default directionality of a web page is...
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GSoC2013 Summary: Right-to-Left Support in VisualEditor
If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you should know by now that I have been participating in the Google Summer of Code internship, working for the Wikimedia Foundation. And now, as the summer has...
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