- removed all cursor-related logic. Instead, insert a new input component
each time the user wants to type. The input remain between bubbles
and focusing on one will open the reference panel. Leaving the input hides
the reference panel.
- during drag-drop reordering, lock the editor height so that it doesn't
get out of sync with the window.
- removed the iframe, since it was no longer needed.
- keyboard navigation: Home/End will place an input at the start/end
of the editor and focus it. Tab focuses the last active input if any, or
the input in the end otherwise. Shift-Tab from the editor focuses the
dropdown button if it is active. Tab from the input will focus the first
entry of the reference list. Tab from the reference list will focus the
active input. Shift-ArrowLeft/Right from focused bubble will swap the bubble
with its neighbor. ArrowDown/Up from bubble will open/close the citation dialog.
- when a reference item is selected, previously active input is re-focused.
- aria-properties to have voiceover, JAWS and NVDA read bubbles, inputs and
reference items, as well as announce hints about available keypresses.
- typing from bubble or the reference panel will refocus previously active
input
- different minor updates to make the functionality less janky
- refactoring of refreshing and resizing of the reference panel to
be more straightforward and to only do it when necessary.
E.g. clicking on a bubble and closing the
popover after will not rerun search and just display the old results.
- some throttling logic so that two escape keypresses one after another
when the itemPopover is open do not close the entire dialog
- renamed variables: qfb=dialog, qfe=editor, panel=itemPopover
- use short form of locator string for bubbles
- new icons
- new twisty (also for items tree)
- new mixin focus-states that can be re-used for less boilerplate
- dark/white compatible with tweaks for when tree is focused (these changes also affect items tree)
- removed macOS specific behaviour (blue-ish background, gradient for selected row)
- border-radius on highlight + spacing tweaks
- tweaked colors and fonts
- Support for "compact"/"comfortable"
Removes a huge amount of excessive files and duplication for CE scss.
All CE css is now output in the single
zotero-react-client.css file.
Moving all CE styling into a single stylesheet required removing their
shadow DOMs. It is desirable anyway, since you want to
be able to style CEs from "outside", when embedding in different
contexts.
Shadow removal required some CE code changes to maintain
functionality.
Elements refactored:
- attachment-box (displayed when an attachment (like PDF) is selected in
the item tree)
- color-picker (in the tag color selector)
- guidance-panel (displayed on first run when editing authors for a book
section)
- item-box (info tab in the item pane)
- note-editor
- notes-box (note tab in the item pane)
- quick-search-textbox
- related-box (related tab in the item pane)
- tags-box (tags tab in the item pane)
- zoterosearch (advanced search condition builder form)
- Don't rely on Zotero.hiDPISuffix being initialized in menuToolbarbutton.js --
it probably hasn't been at the time that the code that creates the dropmarker
is running
- Fix merge mistake that created a duplicate block of CSS
- Render cell text in its native direction
- Fix context menu positioning
- Fix item box (localizations needed)
- Fix column resizing
- Fix bidi text in collection tree
- Always right-align in RTL, always left-align in LTR.
I'm going off advice from this excellent guide for RTL website design
by Ahmad Shadeed: https://rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-styling#tables
- Join creators in the tree ("Smith and Jones") using a format string to
support languages like Arabic and Hebrew where there shouldn't be a
space after the "and".
- Fix tabs
- Fix toolbar on Mac, flip icons on other platforms
Having the macOS Help button in a scrolling view feels kind of weird, but that's
what Apple is doing in the Ventura System Settings app, so I guess we go with
it. I like it better than Firefox's non-contextual "Firefox Support" button
under the pane list in their preferences, anyway - having pane-by-pane
contextual help buttons seems like good UX that there isn't a good reason for us
to ditch.
- Add links-box component (inside noteEditor.js).
- Add related-box component and fix related pane.
- Use tagsBox.jsx instead of tagsbox.xml in note editor links box popup.
- Remove CSS styles and bindings for noteeditor, relatedbox and tagsbox.
- Just a single huge commit. This has been developed over too long a
time, required many tiny changes across too many files and has seen too
many iterations to be separated into separate commits.
The original branch with all the messy commits will be kept around for
posterity
bb220ad0f2...adomasven:feature/react-item-tree
- Replaces XUL <tree> element across the whole zotero client codebase
with a custom supermegafast virtualized-table inspired by
react-virtualized yet mimicking old XUL treeview API. The
virtualized-table sits on top on a raw-to-the-metal,
interpreted-at-runtime JS based windowing solution inspired by
react-window. React-based solutions could not be used because they were
slow and Zotero UI needs to be responsive and be able to
display thousands of rows in a treeview without any slowdowns.
- Attempts were made at making this screen-reader friendly, but yet to
be tested with something like JAWS
- RTL-friendly
- Styling and behaviour across all platforms was copied as closely as
possible to the original XUL tree
- Instead of row-based scroll snapping this has smooth-scrolling. If
you're using arrow keys to browse through the tree then it effectively
snap-scrolls. Current CSS snap scroll attributes do not seem to work in
the way we would require even on up-to-date browsers, yet alone the ESR
version of FX that Zotero is on. JS solutions are either terrible for
performance or produce inexcusable jitter.
- When dragging-and-dropping items the initial drag freezes the UI for
a fairly jarring amount of time. Does not seem to be fixable due to
the synchronous code that needs to be run in the dragstart handler.
Used to be possible to run that code async with the XUL tree.
- Item tree column picker no longer has a dedicated button. Just
right-click the columns. The column preferences (width, order, etc) are
no longer handled by XUL, which required a custom serialization and
storage solution that throws warnings in the developer console due to
the amount of data being stored. Might cause temporary freezing on HDDs
upon column resize/reorder/visibility toggling.
- Context menu handling code basically unchanged, but any UI changes
that plugins may have wanted to do (including adding new columns) will
have to be redone by them. No serious thought has gone into how plugin
developers would achieve that yet.
- Opens up the possibility for awesome alternative ways to render the
tree items, including things like multiple-row view for the item tree,
which has been requested for a long while especially by users switching
from other referencing software
- Rollback all redundant changes made in the last few months
- Introduce `contextPane`
- Show child notes in the notes pane
- Fix splitter styling
- Various bug fixes
- Fix contextPane switching and states persistence
- Persist reader sidebar open/close state
- Fix bottom pane placeholder updating concurrency issues
- Fix toolbar placeholder width updating
- Display titles for split button
- Fix toolbar position when switching tabs
- Add PDF tab loading cover
- Improve notes and citations insertion
- Clean up and refactor code
- Fixes and cleanups to PDF reader
- Show item title at top of item pane in contextual mode not in a
library tab
- Show "All Notes" at top of standalone notes pane
- Add background color when clicking notes in standalone notes list
- Clean up back buttons
Mode button is still a placeholder but uses emoji to show the mode
The Quick Format dialog's shape is based on the OS window corners, and
that changed on Big Sur, which resulted in whitespace along the bottom
edge and a misaligned search results box.
The tops of the citation bubbles were also cut off (at least for me) on
Catalina.
Improvements:
- Fixes autocomplete text remaining in field after selection in Fx60
- No more text or icon shifting on select (tested on macOS)
Changes:
- Tags are now selected on mousedown with no active state, as in web
library
Regressions:
- Tooltip with tag type doesn't appear when hovering over icon
- Pressing Tab after modifying a tag loses focus
- Right-click in textbox shows custom menu instead of default text
editing context menu (Cut/Copy/Paste)
To-do:
- Switch to this version for note tags box
- Style colored tags in autocomplete drop-down? Sort to top?
- Only show delete button on row hover, as in web library?
The XBL prefwindow bindings are removed in Firefox 60, so this adds them
back, along with necessary styling, to allow the existing preferences to
work until the preferences are rewritten with React. The preferences.xml
file in the Mozilla source has platform ifdefs, but since this is a
temporary hack I've just duplicated the file for each platform with the
necessary lines included.
I haven't yet tested the styling on Windows/Linux.
In particular, remove code related to opening/closing the Zotero pane,
which affects tests. The pane is now opened by default in Firefox, which
brings its behavior closer to the main version.
