Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/24/09 3:50 AM, MinuteElectron wrote: > 2009/3/23 Brion Vibber: >> On 3/23/09 9:17 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: >>> Since all of this requires JavaScript to work anyway, a quick and dirty >>> first step to un-bloating stuff would be to move all of the charinsert >>> stuff to a separate .js file whos

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-24 Thread MinuteElectron
Hello, 2009/3/23 Brion Vibber : > On 3/23/09 9:17 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: >> Since all of this requires JavaScript to work anyway, a quick and dirty >> first step to un-bloating stuff would be to move all of the charinsert >> stuff to a separate .js file whose sole purpose is to add the >> charins

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/23/09 12:57 PM, MinuteElectron wrote: > The first main solution to the problems outlined here would be to have > an option in preferences to completely enable or disable the edit > tools dialog. There's really no need for that; an initial load with a sensible architecture would be trivial in

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/23/09 9:17 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > Aryeh Gregor schreef: >> with JavaScript parsing it to make the characters clickable? >> > Since all of this requires JavaScript to work anyway, a quick and dirty > first step to un-bloating stuff would be to move all of the charinsert > stuff to a separate

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread MinuteElectron
Hello, We have been looking in to making a few modifications to edit tools to make it more useful, and spent some time discussing various solutions. At the moment we have a specification for some basic additional features [1] (waiting for auditing) but as it stands this does not solve all of the p

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
Aryeh Gregor schreef: > with JavaScript parsing it to make the characters clickable? > Since all of this requires JavaScript to work anyway, a quick and dirty first step to un-bloating stuff would be to move all of the charinsert stuff to a separate .js file whose sole purpose is to add the cha

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Trevor Parscal
Seems reasonable for logged in users to opt in for languages they are going to actually use, but what about anonnomous users? Perhaps it could be a hidden field with an Ajax(/some fallback) control that only loads the other languages when the user asks for them, which would probably be seld

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:10 AM, wrote: > Nice to have all the world's alphabets at one's fingertips right there > on the (www.mediawiki.org) edit page. Wow, IPA, Pīnyīn, they're all > there. I'm saving it for even when I'm not editing MediaWiki. > > (However, as it bloats the edit page up to 700

[Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread jidanni
Nice to have all the world's alphabets at one's fingertips right there on the (www.mediawiki.org) edit page. Wow, IPA, Pīnyīn, they're all there. I'm saving it for even when I'm not editing MediaWiki. (However, as it bloats the edit page up to 700% $ wget -O x.html http://www.mediawiki.org/w/inde