Daniel Friesen wrote:
On 10-12-07 08:18 AM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
I was first like wtf as well, but on the other hand this way skin building would be much more accesibles for non-programmer mediawiki users. Regular wiki users do know wikitext, as opposed to PHP. I'm not entirely sure though that this would be good for your sanity. I wouldn't discard the idea immediately, insane as it may seem.
^_^ I was drafting a response Platonides' comment, ie: an example of a chunk of MonoBook code using a WikiText style template language... in order to demonstrate the insanity of using the style that our preprocessor preprocesses as a template language for skins... I decided it sounded obviously insane enough that I didn't need to... ;) wan't me to re-start that example...?
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
I'm not sure myself of the sanity of such approach. :) But if {$title|escape:html} is considered "friendly", it'd be much better to use a known syntax than creating a new one.