On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:33:03 +0100, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
- In contrast, the CSS rules used to mark certain external links with the PDF, IRC, SSL, etc "specific" icon types are relatively ugly and hard to maintain. These use inefficient client-side attribute value matching. There is a desire to clean these up in the style sheets, which would of course be easiest if they're simply removed.
I think we should apply this logic to bug 1. ;)
- If it's useful to keep those subtypes, it may be more desirable to implement them differently (for instance by having the parser apply the matching rules and output a class). This would simplify the CSS rules for maintenance, since they would be able to just use the classes.
There's a bug for that (linked earlier). Patches welcome.