[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27112: Add widget management to the customizer

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#27112: Add widget management to the customizer
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 Reporter:  nacin           |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.9
Component:  Widgets         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by westonruter):

 We discussed on IRC the removal of the current partial preview refreshing
 of widgets in favor of generalizing the functionality so that any
 customize control can add support for doing so; this partial preview
 refresh is key to keeping things DRY by eliminating the current
 requirement that all setting updates via `postMessage` transport re-
 implement all rendering logic in JavaScript for components that are
 normally written out in PHP—but even when the render logic is attempted to
 be written in JS, it will never be able to account for any filters added
 in PHP.

 For instance, with such partial preview refreshes, the Navigation Menu
 control needn't do a full refresh of the preview: the menu's container
 could be targeted for a partial refresh, where the new menu gets rendered
 via an Ajax request and the response replaces the old menu.

 @nacin: I've created a branch for Widget Customizer and have ripped out
 the partial preview refreshing: https://github.com/x-team/wp-widget-
 customizer/compare/without-partial-previews

 Hopefully this is helpful to you. Let me know if there's anything I can do
 to help with the merge.

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