On 2010-06-22 08:03, Eric Sun wrote:
> I'm trying to run action=query in Python with a POST request, but for some
> reason it only works with a GET.
[...]
> This doesn't work (POST):
req = urllib2.Request('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php',
> 'action=query&titles=The_Matrix&export&format=txt'
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Tisza Gergo wrote:
> Infoboxes would do fine, navboxes not so much. Consider something like [1],
> how
> would that work with fixed widths?
>
> If I remember correctly, there was an effort a while ago to make navbox markup
> less ugly (make it use a single table a
Marco Schuster harddisk.is-a-geek.org> writes:
> But why is IE8 falling back to compat-mode at Wikimedia sites?
Microsoft has a blacklist for sites they deem incompatible with IE8, and
Wikimedia sites are on that list (see [1]). No idea why, Wikipedia looks pretty
much the same in IE7 and (non-
Hi,
I'm trying to run action=query in Python with a POST request, but for some
reason it only works with a GET.
This works fine (GET):
>>> req = urllib2.Request('
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=The_Matrix&export&format=txt
')
>>> f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300)
>>> prin
On 06/21/2010 08:34 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
> The original comment was actually about the box structure on the main page.
> Which is a presentational table. Infoboxes are, arguabley, "real" tables.
> Though
> often it's a real table wrapped in a presentational table, wich is pretty bad.
Agreed.
Neil Kandalgaonkar schrieb:
> On 6/20/10 10:42 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure that infoboxes can be done just fine with divs.
>
> But wait -- an infobox is not a presentational table. Insofar as it
> presents a key-value structure, it's also semantically a table. So in
> this context
On 6/21/10 2:57 AM, Tisza Gergo wrote:
> Aryeh Gregor gmail.com> writes:
>
>> You can't get the exact
>> auto-width algorithm for the cells, but in typical infoboxes it will
>> be fine if you just set it to 50% or something.
As I mentioned in another post, this is probably a case where you
actu
On 6/20/10 10:42 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that infoboxes can be done just fine with divs.
But wait -- an infobox is not a presentational table. Insofar as it
presents a key-value structure, it's also semantically a table. So in
this context, tags are just fine, and it's up to s
Aryeh Gregor gmail.com> writes:
> I'm pretty sure that infoboxes can be done just fine with divs. Not
> exactly as they are now, but well enough. You can't get the exact
> auto-width algorithm for the cells, but in typical infoboxes it will
> be fine if you just set it to 50% or something. And
