Jérémie Roquet wrote:
Hi Ilmari, great idea! It's not as powerful as the iframe hack was (since it's limited to the api), but I think it's enough for me to release a quick fix for iKiwi (not for xmsg, unfortunately, because userinfo is not accessible that way). I didn't know about the callback parameter, so you just saved my business ;-) Thanks a lot!
Why do you consider the api less powerful than "dom scraping" ? What can't you do with it?
It fits perfectly for fetching the interwikis: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Main_Page&prop=l...
And there's a handy property to determine if you have new messages: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=...