Jimmy Wales wrote:
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
The "?" links are another matter: I can't think of a clean way to offer both options; i.e., links on the whole word with some style, or links only around the "?". How much screaming do you think would take place if we simply eliminated the "?" links, and just made two link style options (one sedate and one loud)?
If the benefit will be substantial, and I think it will, I think this is a cost we can live with.
I think we can improve the speed of rendering/parsing a page enough so caching won't be necessary 1. Enhanced parser, probably in C++ (working on it) 2. Caching of the "known-to-be-existing" links in a single field (separated with "\n", probably) in the cur table. That will greatly reduce the number of database queries for the link table(s)
I haven't seen a ? link in a long time, and I no longer miss them.
I don't either ;-)
Magnus