On 13/11/2007, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think my main motivation for working on a new and
better parser is to give
MediaWiki room to grow. It's currently really stifled by the many layers of
text replacement that take place, and developers continually express a fear
of "breaking the parser". That inhibits the development of new features.
IMO the main problem is a lack of interoperability and valid alternate
implementations. The syntax is currently literally defined as whatever
falls out of the PHP parser. That's not good enough for the big world
and people are routinely horrified when I explain that's the reason
MediaWiki doesn't have all manner of obvious useful things like a
WYSIWYG editor, format converters, etc.
- d.