Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Steve Summit <s...@eskimo.com> wrote: >> Sometime between yesterday and today, the edit summary field on >> en.wp's edit page lost its "type=text" attribute. > > Is it causing any problems?
No, just a curiosity. > It was part of some much-needed code cleanup I did to the editing page. Okay, but beware: wpAntispam still does have the explicit type="text", and there's a confusing welter of single and double quotes among the type='hidden' fields. :-) > You should note that bots *should not* be using the UI, as breaking > changes such as this. Oh, yeah, I know. But it's an old bot, and it mostly works, and I haven't found time to sit down and rewrite it to use the API. > Even using the UI, you should use a proper HTML parser, not regexes > (as I suspect you were using) to parse the HTML. Don't worry, it uses a *ML parser. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
