On 31 August 2011 15:32, Chad
<innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I *hate* action urls. They overly complicate
Article and related classes, and
date from a time before special pages existed. While on the one hand I think
the cleanup recently to make Action classes and move the code out was a
positive thing...I agree the better course of action is to kill them
entirely. Of
course, things like action=edit should work as back-compat for near eternity
(supporting action=foobar redirects to Special:Foobar/Title would take very
little code).
We should probably be commenting on the wiki, but I'm at work at
the
moment and this is quicker. While it may well be true that special
pages are better from a programming point of view, I much prefer
action urls from a user point of view. I quite often get to pages by
modifying urls rather than clicking links (why load an article before
editing it when you can go straight to the edit page?) and I find it
much easier to do that with action urls than special pages. If nothing
else, it means the edit page and the article page are next to each
other in the alphabetical list of recently viewed pages that appears
when I start typing.
And that's one of the reasons why my proposal preserves
the use of
action urls and makes them and special pages one and the same.
I considered the arguments pro-action and pro-specialpages when I wrote
this up and took them all into account.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [