Hello CW Dillon,
The magic involves changing core MediaWiki code. <abbr> and <acronym>
tags are blacklisted by default. You have to "unblacklist" them in
Sanitizer.php, and the rest is just template magic.
In Sanitizer.php, Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags() function, add 'abbr' and
'acronym' elements to the $htmlpairs array.
Then, in the same file, in Sanitizer::setupAttributeWhitelist(), find
the two "abbr" and "acronym" commented lines and replace them with:
'abbr' => $common,
'acronym' => $common,
After that, you will be allowed to use abbr and acronym tags in your
pages. Like this:
<abbr title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</abbr>
I used some template magic to make this less tedious. There are
templates for each abbreviation and acronym, like {{XML}}, that expands
to, for example:
{{abbr|XML|eXtensible Markup Language}}
and {{abbr}} and {{acronym}} templates that expand to, respectively:
<abbr title="{{{2}}}">{{{1}}}</abbr>
<acronym title="{{{2}}}">{{{1}}}</acronym>
Regards,
Juliano.
CW Dillon wrote:
Juliano,
I like your approach to blogging in MW, but I'm even more curious about your
abbreviations tags, for example in the post about Mozilla Bookmarks to Wiki
(21 July 2006). I looked at the templates and tags, but saw no extension
controlling this on your Version page. Can you say how this is done? I
don't like the heavy java in the ToolTips extension. Your approach is more
like what I'm looking for.
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