Andrew Garrett wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Sometime between yesterday and today, the edit summary field on en.wp's edit page lost its "type=text" attribute.
Is it causing any problems?
No, just a curiosity.
It was part of some much-needed code cleanup I did to the editing page.
Okay, but beware: wpAntispam still does have the explicit type="text", and there's a confusing welter of single and double quotes among the type='hidden' fields. :-)
You should note that bots *should not* be using the UI, as breaking changes such as this.
Oh, yeah, I know. But it's an old bot, and it mostly works, and I haven't found time to sit down and rewrite it to use the API.
Even using the UI, you should use a proper HTML parser, not regexes (as I suspect you were using) to parse the HTML.
Don't worry, it uses a *ML parser.