2009/1/20 Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com>om>:
Andrew Dunbar wrote:
Just the couple I needed for checking for and
fetching raw articles:
/w/index.php?title=...&action=raw
/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=...|...&redirects
And what's the point of Firefox retrieving article contents when you're
offline?
Err well being able to read articles when you're offline.
But also analysing Wiktionary. Checking whether it had entries for certain
words etc.
plus an
extension which returned a list of languages for which there were
articles in an English Wiktionary page
For outside Firefox I also had a Perl CGI version but on my Eee PC that
was way more expensive to run
Probably because the perl is interpreted and the extension compiled.
Well Firefox extensions are in JavaScript, also an interpreted language,
but the cost of starting up the perl interpreter was expensive, especially doing
a few simultaneous operations.
The use case I would deem more common would be to
access page contents
from outside for processing, eg. to show it on a page, as
http://wiki-web.es/mediawiki-offline-reader/
Perhaps. I wasn't making something for the more common use case, I was
making something I had a use for (-:
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
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