[Mediawiki-l] Right hook to use for head html element?

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Sun May 1 22:52:35 UTC 2011


Dorem - Jérémie Bouillon wrote:
> On 01/05/2011 13:31, Krinkle wrote:
>> Just out of curiousity, to avoid or perhaps solve a less-than-ideal
>> construction,
>> why does it have to be at the end per se ? What is it you want to insert
>> there ?
> 
> Two things. First, I'm starting to seriously use MW, so it helps me 
> learning it :-)
> 
> Second in this specific case, it's for Google Analytics. Since they have 
> changed it to a faster and asynchronous javascript handling, there's no 
> extension with the appropriate code anymore, and they strongly advise to 
> place it here (last thing before /head).
> 
> I'll adjust the code position in the future with more test and feedback 
> when my site goes public, but right now I don't see the harm in 
> following their recommendation, and perhaps more important to have the 
> same result across the various part of my site (hence, having it placed 
> on the same spot).

Note that 1.17 introduces ResouceLoader for packing javasccript and css
resources.




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