On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:07:29 +0100, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I also understand that there are plans to refactor it
to be sensibly
organised with the right functionality in the right place. (Though I
have no idea if there is actually anyone assigned to such a task.)
Is this the case? If not, what is? What's the
present and future of Vector?
There are plans, yes, and things are even starting to be getting done. See
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45051 . And feel free to help :)
I sort of voluntarily assigned myself to it. As in, I want it done, and probably no one
will unless I get on this myself, so I started working in it. I'm mostly fighting the
footer cleanup thing right now (which is still disabled by default), the rest is free to
take (there is a breakdown on the bug).
My plan for the extension is to leave only the disabled features no one was using anyway
in it, and just let it stay like this. It'll probably be disabled on WMF servers once
all the features that are actually in use are ported.
The trouble with Vector is that, as I understand it,
it's an odd
melange of extension and skin, with functionality that should be in
one being in the other, both ways.
Yes, but really, much worse problem is the hardcore CSS hackery used to get it to look
pretty in IE6 and FF2. Cleaning this up would make it much easier to customize the skin,
but I don't see a way to do it without dropping support (or at least breaking some
rendering a bit), and I don't see this getting any WMF support :)
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Matma Rex