On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Daniel Barrett <d...@vistaprint.com> wrote:
> Me:
>>> 8.      Our MediaWiki:common.js stopped running on the login page. I 
>>> realize this was a security fix; it just took me by surprise.  Fixed by 
>>> writing a custom extension using the hook UserLoginForm to inject the few 
>>> lines of JS we needed, and I'm evaluating other non-JS solutions for more 
>>> security.
>
> Chad writes:
>>This hasn't changed any time recently as far as I can tell...we've had this
>>in place for quite awhile.
>
> Thanks Chad. FYI, MediaWiki:common.js definitely runs on Special:UserLogin in 
> 1.17.1, the immediately previous release.
> DanB
>

Hrm...I distinctly remember user's personal JS was disabled on that page.
I wonder if ResourceLoader by grouping the JS also ends up disabling it.
In either case, it is a security issue and there's not much we can do about
it right now.

-Chad

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