Lightning wrote:
Hi, I am Lightning.. Thats also my username in wikipedia.
Hi, and welcome!
Seems like there's this whole big hoop-la about i8n, and translation and yadda yadda yadda. I was kind of thinking, since some languages dont translate so easily, (as to say you cant just change that string and it will look right), are templates a possibility? I was looking through the code, and it looks pretty straight forward, but all the HTML in the code is just kinda, nasty and crowds the code.. I think a separation of the code and markup would be a really good thing. new themes would be easy to make, and it would allow for a lot more formatting options and easier changing of the look and feel of the page. Anyone have any opinions? has this been brought up before?
I suggested an "universal" skin once, as a HTML page with pseudo-variables (e.g., "$articlebody$" or "<articletitle>") and conditions (e.g., "<loggedin>...</loggedin>") to be replaced with the values from LocalSettings and Language files. Never got around implementing it, though.
Oh and also.. anyone ever consider adding a spellcheck feature? Because I have been thinking about it, but I'd like to know if this has been an idea shot down before for a reason, you know, so I dont waste my time [attempting] implementing it.
There was talk about this, but never any concrete plans. Implementation could be tricky. Maybe that would be something to implement in an "offline wikipedia editor"? There was brief talk about such a thing as well.
Magnus