On Monday, July 11, 2016, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de>
wrote:
Hi Jaime, thanks for the pointer! I had completely
forgotten about that.
A few thoughts about that RFC:
* I have long thought that content_format is pretty pointless and
redundant. I
haven't seen any content model that uses different
serialization formats
(I
wrote a few that support two, but only ever used one).
If the
serialization does
need to change for some reason, it's usually easy
to detect from the
first few
bytes.
As an aside, ive been recently (as in literally last week) been doing some
stuff using multiple serialization formats (specificly i wanted the user to
be able to choose what format to edit as, but always save in the canonical
format). Its working pretty well for my use case. Two issues i encountered
was the show diff button on edit page totally broken (T139249) and there is
no way to separate out default format for editing from default format for
db.
(Sorry if this is off topic, i just wanted to mention im actually using
content format, albeit not the db part of it).
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bawolff