Add support for Variable MNM v2

[limist]

Per title, we found that the Quick View button shows up as expected for a regular MnM product's items, but does not show up for an MnM Variable product's items, thanks.

[helgatheviking]

I'd kinda forgotten about this mini-extension, but that doesn't surprise me. The react rewrite of VMNM made a lot of cross compatibility (among the ecosystem of mini-extensions) break... it all needed to be re-done. I refactored everything I knew you were using, but didn't do this one yet.

[limist]

@helgatheviking Ok, understood, won't use this mini-plugin for now.

I think the best interim solution is to have some way to change the individual item/product links, to open in a new tab using the link attribute of target=foo, to help the user avoid losing or forgetting their MnM selections & quantities whenever they click on an item to see more about it. (Similar thought for the thumbnail links; suggest deactivating those links to avoid confusing the user.) Would that be out of the question please? Thanks!

[helgatheviking]

Bit of a catch 22 there as target="_blank" opens a link in a new tab and that's supposedly poor for accessibility/screen readers. i actually removed that on the advice of some accessibility folks.

To possibly persist the current selection... I wonder if we could use local storage, so that if you click away accidentally your selections are still there. That would be a nice enhancement, but might be beyond what I can do next week as I am trying to wrap a lot of things up.

But definitely could stand to look at only linking the images when they can be launched in a modal and otherwise unlink them. I agree that the images are unnecessarily confusing.

[limist]

@helgatheviking Hey Kathy, bumping this issue as to whether you have updated thoughts on this quick-view feature please? It would help with speeding up conversions, if users didn't have to navigate away from the MnM (or variable MnM) product page each time they want to read more about a product. Thanks!

[helgatheviking]

@limist I'm a long ways away from this. I'm still exploring how Woo is moving to blocks and how I can best leverage that shift to unify original Mix and Match with Variable Mix and Match. Once that's done, it should be relatively straightforward to add an inner block, but I couldn't put any timeline on what the blockification will be complete.