I just want to be clear that any sort of template syntax that resembles or can be confused with wikitext is not something that we can or should allow in core. If MobileFrontend and whatnot want to use this syntax, so be it.
-- Tyler Romeo 0x405D34A7C86B42DF
From: Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org Reply: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Date: July 7, 2014 at 21:28:33 To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating progress; Knockout Components & curly brace syntax
== Curly braces == The other thing they're adding is text interpolation so you can do <span>{{name}}</span> and people don't have to be sad about Knockout's HTML attribute syntax. This can simplify the migration for existing handlebars compatible templates as used by Mobile & Flow.