Re: [Wikitech-l] Batik SVG-to-PNG server revisited

2009-08-17 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/17 Hk kng hk@web.de: New test results were added at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SVG_benchmarks This looks even better than my first attempt. Nonetheless, it is clear that batikd is not ready to use but needs to be worked on. Nice one! Has anyone set up Inkscape so it doesn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] identifier collisions

2009-08-17 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Platonides platoni...@gmail.com [Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:06:59 +0200]: In fact, I'm not sure to have understood the problem. I find the proposed options quite bizarre. So if you have understood the specification, please enlighten me. :) If I had to check whether there are any regressions between

[Wikitech-l] Browser sniffing in JavaScript (and elsewhere)

2009-08-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
Back in May 2004, Gabriel Wicke was creating a neat new skin called Monobook. Unlike the old skins, it used good semantic markup with CSS 2 for style. Gabriel made sure to test in a lot of browsers and made up files full of extensive fixes for browsers that had problems. One such browser was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser sniffing in JavaScript (and elsewhere)

2009-08-17 Thread Brion Vibber
In theory at least all new checks in the last few years have been specific in this way -- either testing for capabilities or if that's not doable looking for particular versions (like the IE fixes which are tied to known releases of IE, or the Gecko and WebKit fixes which check if they're

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser sniffing in JavaScript (and elsewhere)

2009-08-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/8/17 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: I tried to remove some browser-sniffing from wikibits.js, but there's undoubtedly some I missed.  Especially with the large amounts of JS being added recently for usability/new upload/etc., could everyone *please* check to make sure that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser sniffing in JavaScript (and elsewhere)

2009-08-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On Aug 17, 2009, at 9:30, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Both the usabilty and new upload JS use jQuery, which hides most browser sniffing you need in abstraction layers. To my knowledge the jQuery devs do sniff browsers properly, and if something should go wrong in jQuery, it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] identifier collisions

2009-08-17 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org [Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:27:26 -0700]: There should be no need for multiple servers in any case; web software is pretty good about coexisting. ;) Wouldn't a truly robust comparsion require two separate AMP's instead of simple apache virtual hosts? Multiple