Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:10 AM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

Nice to have all the world's alphabets at one's fingertips right there on the (www.mediawiki.org) edit page. Wow, IPA, Pīnyīn, they're all there. I'm saving it for even when I'm not editing MediaWiki.

(However, as it bloats the edit page up to 700% $ wget -O x.html http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=WHATEVER%5C&action=edit $ perl -nwle 'print unless /onclick/' x.html|wc -c - x.html|sed '$d'  19748 -  139708 x.html there should also be some mechanism available for pages like these for users to opt out, perhaps via Preferences?)

Yeah, CharInsert is a mess:

<a onclick="insertTags(&#39;–&#39;,&#39;&#39;,&#39;&#39;);return false" href="#">–</a> <a onclick="insertTags(&#39;—&#39;,&#39;&#39;,&#39;&#39;);return false" href="#">—</a> · <a onclick="insertTags(&#39;“&#39;,&#39;”&#39;,&#39;&#39;);return false" href="#">“”</a>

Why can't the HTML for this be something like

<span class="insert">–</span> <span class="insert">—</span> · <span class="insert">“”</span>

Or even just

<span>–</span> <span>—</span> · <span>“”</span>

with JavaScript parsing it to make the characters clickable?