On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Sometime between yesterday and today, the edit summary field on en.wp's edit page lost its "type=text" attribute. It now reads:
<input name="wpSummary" size="60" value="" id="wpSummary" maxlength="200" tabindex="1" />Lo and behold, type=text is the default, so it doesn't actually break a standards-compliant browser, but it's kind of an an odd change. (I noticed because it mildly broke a bot of mine, that assumed type=text only by accident, and after printing some extraneous error messages.)
It was part of some much-needed code cleanup I did to the editing page.
Is it causing any problems?
You should note that bots *should not* be using the UI, as breaking changes such as this. They should use the API which is set up for bots.
Even using the UI, you should use a proper HTML parser, not regexes (as I suspect you were using) to parse the HTML.
-- Andrew Garrett