Update diff view

[vmariano]

As initial version we show red/green messages as change sets of the main bill's text.
The next step is show the difference at side of the main text like medium comments.

The objective is better understand of the change, avoiding be so invasive in the colors, and differences.

[vmariano]

I'm not sure how should be highlighted the modified paragraph. Maybe an icon on the left side, and when press / hover. highlight the paragraph with the old version.

[gvilarino]

I believe an icon on the side should always be present when there's a diff. On-hover could be mis-interpreted as the side-comments featura and would also demand the user to navigate the whole bill looking for diffs with his mouse.

[vmariano]

I believe an icon on the side should always be present when there's a diff.

👍 I didn’t see in other way.

On-hover could be mis-interpreted as the side-comments feature and would also demand the user to navigate the whole bill looking for diffs with his mouse.

I explain better, I thought in something like:

The border can be show it on over / or click.
About the nav of the whole law, what do you suggest? To see each change, the user must see the whole text.

[gvilarino]

I sort of understand what you mean but I'm not sure I'm getting the whole picture. What would the diff-display feel like? I imagined either some sort of pop-up or a medium-like horizontal sliding that displays the actual diff.

Also, about navigation. I'm not sure either; maybe we could think of something similar to text navigation on the right, though it seems a bit far-fetched right now.

The more I think about this, the more I believe there should be two "modes" for a law:

• Plain mode: you see the bill text as a whole, with a little mark on the right whenever there's been a change (and it displays when you click on it).
• Diff mode: you only see snippets of diffs, more or less like what github shows for a commit.

Thoughts?

[vmariano]

I sort of understand what you mean but I'm not sure I'm getting the whole picture. What would the diff-display feel like? I imagined either some sort of pop-up or a medium-like horizontal sliding that displays the actual diff.

Yeah, that was I try to figure in my draw.

Also is hard to imagine something where you compare medium side coments + github diff + side text as sublimetext

Can you get 5 min and draw something where you imagine whole thing together?

[gvilarino]

I see. I like that. Is the dotted line always present or only when a diff is being displayed?

[vmariano]

Is the dotted line always present or only when a diff is being displayed?

In the 1th version we can make present only on the over of the icon, and see what happen.

[gvilarino]

Ok, let's go with that

[vmariano]

#31 and #29 are related.

[gvilarino]

@vmariano #31 and #31? Please elaborate :p

[vmariano]

sorry, was #31 and #29

[vmariano]

#29 (comment)