[Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-01-31 Thread David Gerard
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/01/30/Facebook-rewrites-PHP-runtime.aspx Facebook is written in PHP. Unlike Wikimedia, they have money to pay people to speed it up. Looks like they're introducing a PHP compiler. Open source. Might be of interest to WMF and third-party MediaWiki users ...

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia 503s

2010-01-31 Thread Casey Brown
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Mike.lifeguard mike.lifegu...@gmail.com wrote: The whole site went down ~25 minutes ago, and seems to be back up as of ~5 minutes ago. Just a reminder that when the site's down, it's usually best to report issues/follow the status on IRC (if possible).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Description of process flow available?

2010-01-31 Thread Happy-melon
The best way to describe the process flow is a complete spaghetti bowl. The first steps in a file-by-file sense are index.php -- {various setup files} -- Wiki.php -- {Article.php/SpecialPage.php}. Somewhere along the way a global OutputPage object is initialised as $wgOut and things can be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-01-31 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi David, We don't run on rumors! Domas ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 January 2010 05:07, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: An important distinction is that IE for Mac users on Mac OS (classic) don't have the copious upgrade options available to IE 5.5 users on Windows. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 31 January 2010 20:49, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: If I'm reading that right, only 0.02% of users are using Mac OS classic (although I suppose there could be some more that have been grouped into Other, but that won't be many). That is still at least 1000 pageviews per month.  

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Daniel Schwen li...@schwen.de wrote: That is still at least 1000 pageviews per month.  If it does not degrade gracefully, we would be telling them to buy a new computer in order to view Wikipedia. This is completely wrong. You do know that it is possible to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-01-31 Thread Platonides
David Gerard wrote: http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/01/30/Facebook-rewrites-PHP-runtime.aspx Facebook is written in PHP. Unlike Wikimedia, they have money to pay people to speed it up. Looks like they're introducing a PHP compiler. Open source. Might be of interest to WMF and

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia 503s

2010-01-31 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Mike.lifeguard mike.lifegu...@gmail.com wrote: The whole site went down ~25 minutes ago, and seems to be back up as of ~5 minutes ago. Just a reminder that when the site's down, it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Ryan Kaldari kald...@gmail.com wrote: This entire discussion about support for IE 5 Mac is pointless. IE for Mac used a completely different rendering engine than IE for Windows and was actually (pretty-much) standards compliant. We don't need to worry about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I would definitely agree with that. We may be the last site on the Internet to customize our CSS for Mac IE :) Ryan Kaldari On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:53 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Ryan Kaldari kald...@gmail.com wrote: This entire discussion

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:34 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Even then, there is http://www.askvg.com/download-mozilla-firefox-30-portable-edition-no-installation-needed/ Excuse me?  please read the earlier posts in this thread. I am talking about IE for Mac Classic. iCab

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Who said anything about dropping support for basic use? I would be surprised if you could tell much difference on Mac IE between Wikipedia with the custom stylesheet and without. But perhaps you could give it a try and report back to us, rather than relying on my wild speculations :) Ryan Kaldari

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Ryan Kaldari kald...@gmail.com wrote: Who said anything about dropping support for basic use? I would be surprised if you could tell much difference on Mac IE between Wikipedia with the custom stylesheet and without. But perhaps you could give it a try and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread Peter Gervai
What about creating an monobo'oldies theme for them? I mean, move current stuff to oldies, and drop elders support from monobook. -- byte-byte, grin ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org