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