Actually using the tag approach (or a parser func such as #iframe) is the preferred approach imo.

Using transcluded special pages disables parser cache by default which would have a negative impact on performance.

Otherwise there is probably not much difference. Parser tags lets you interact with the mediawiki parser, which is often useful, but probably not for your extension.

-- bawolff

On Wednesday, November 29, 2017, Sigbert Klinke sigbert@wiwi.hu-berlin.de wrote:

Hi,

to embed an iframe into a wiki page the above extension uses

{{Special:IframePage|wiwi|path="examples?R=data/bivariate/chi2_coefficients/example_chi2coeff.R"}}

I wrote a similar extension which is called by

<iframe k="wiwi"

p="examples?R=data/bivariate/chi2_coefficients/example_chi2coeff.R" />

I would like to know what would be the advantage of using {{Special:...}}

rather than <iframe ... />.

Thanks Sigbert

-- https://hu.berlin/sk https://hu.berlin/mmstat3

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