On 02/20/2011 11:52 PM, Platonides wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: > >> Second, would this impede the ability to remove the "you've been logged in" >> screen? Aryeh mentioned an idea that would allow MediaWiki to remove this >> horrible workflow interrupter.[2] > > You may have noticed that I included a horrible page to log you in > instead of the content (the "lightweight page"). That can be replaced > with a javascript login, if it is clear how to do it. > Showing a login dialog and setting your cookies is easy. But what do you > do with the previous screen? You can return to it, but oh, you have > several more tabs, and it needs rollback links with tokens everywhere, > and there's now a need to highlight the links to pages smaller than 500 > bytes, and replacing png equations with TeX. Plus you have a couple of > gadgets which needs loading, and the site javascript, which already > fired would have needed to do something different. > Using a separate page avoids skips that trouble. The LQTv2 you mention > will have that problem, too. Unless they join the you are logged in > action with the comment submit, or so.
Combining the login with the comment submission is probably the most practical approach for LQT. The AJAX login script I wrote for NetHackWiki[1] usually just reloads the page, but it's smart enough to click preview/diff instead on edit pages and to follow the return link on Special:UserLogout instead. I don't have it triggering on the "save" button like the LQT screenshot showed, but if I did, it should be easy to just continue with the save after logging in. [1] http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/MediaWiki:AJAXLogin.js -- Ilmari Karonen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
