On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Great stuff. cc Wikidata, I know they were interested
in replacing
their custom template engine...
I will respond to Krinkle's review for the client side library today.
Jon
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> After 14 months of discussion, HTML templating is now live in core
> MediaWiki. Currently only the server-side implementation has been merged. A
> client-side implementation has also been submitted, but is stalled in
> Gerrit (
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/180647/).
>
> You can now use Mustache templates in your extensions and core code by
> calling TemplateParser->processTemplate(). Full documentation can be found
> at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:HTML_templates.
>
> There are three main impetuses for this new feature:
>
> 1. Improving the sanity and readability of MediaWiki code. Ideally, our PHP
> code should have little or no HTML in it. We should strive to keep our PHP
> interfaces high-level and with clear separation of concerns. We are a long
> way from conforming to anything like an MVC pattern, but this brings us one
> step closer to being able to achieve that. The work on OOjs and related
> interfaces is another important component of this.
>
> 2. Standardizing our templating implementations. There are currently six
> different HTML templating implementations in various MediaWiki
> extensions.[1] Hopefully, we can now reduce that number.
>
> 3. Moving MobileFrontend into core. We are also a long way away from
> achieving this goal, but now one step closer. MobileFrontend relies heavily
> on HTML templating, so having this feature in core is a pre-requisite to
> moving more MobileFrontend features over.
>
> I know there is still disagreement about the specific implementation
> details of this feature (such as the choice of Mustache), but this is just
> the first iteration of this feature and I hope we can work together to
> revise and improve it further.
>
> 1.
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library…
>
> Ryan Kaldari
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