On 10-12-07 08:18 AM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Trevor Parscal<tpars...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Oh please no!
>>
>> - Trevor
>>
>> On 12/7/10 7:26 AM, Platonides wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Friesen wrote:
>>>
>>>> PHP -> XSL doesn't quite feel like much of an improvement in terms of
>>>> cutting down on the verbose redundant code boilerplate required to
>>>> insert something.
>>>> ie:<xsl:value-of select="title"/> doesn't look much better than<?php
>>>> $this->text("title") ?>, as opposed to {$title|escape:html}.
>>>>
>>> This seems an argument for using the preprocessor for the skin system,
>>> in order to include the variables into the raw html.
>>>
>>>
> I was first like wtf as well, but on the other hand this way skin
> building would be much more accesibles for non-programmer mediawiki
> users. Regular wiki users do know wikitext, as opposed to PHP. I'm not
> entirely sure though that this would be good for your sanity. I
> wouldn't discard the idea immediately, insane as it may seem.
>
^_^ I was drafting a response Platonides' comment, ie: an example of a
chunk of MonoBook code using a WikiText style template language... in
order to demonstrate the insanity of using the style that our
preprocessor preprocesses as a template language for skins...
I decided it sounded obviously insane enough that I didn't need to...
;) wan't me to re-start that example...?
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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