In my opinion, parsing .js and .css as wikitext is a borken idea. Add some kind of pragmas to the page and strip them off in the ResourceLoader. John
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:44 AM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Krinkle wrote: >> On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Daniel Kinzler <dan...@brightbyte.de> wrote: >>> When designing the ContentHandler, I asked around about whether JS and CSS >>> pages >>> should be parsed as wikitext, so categories etc would work. The gist of the >>> responses I got was "naw, lets get rid of that". So I did (though PST is >>> still >>> applied - Tim asked for that at the Berlin Hackathon). >>> >>> Sure enough, people are complaining now, see >>> <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41155>. Also note that an >>> older >>> request for disablingt parsing of script pages was closed as WONTFIX: >>> <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32858>. >>> >>> I'm inclined to (at least optionally) enable the parsing of script pages, >>> but >>> I'd like to get some feedback first. >> >> Yeah, as more elaborately put on the bug[1], it was disabled in >> ContentHandler >> without dedicated discussion because it was thought of as a minor oddity that >> should be removed as a bug. >> >> We know now that (though it might have been a bug originally) it is a major >> feature that unless replaced, must not be removed. >> >> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41155 > > Well, the current approach is hackish. The links are kind of stored, but not > rendered, so you still end up with dead-end pages and a completely > surprising result to most users. > > I think the last thing we need is yet another parser. There is already > distinct parsing for weird parts of the MediaWiki UI (such as edit summaries > and log comments). I think any further specialized parsers should be shot > on-sight. > > More thoughts here: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/39609> ("Limit scope of > title-based syntax highlighting"). > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
