[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Changes to accesskeys and tooltips

[David Gerard]

Forwarding here given en: users' fondness for js extensions.

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From: Simetrical <Simetrical+wikitech at gmail.com>
Date: 31-Oct-2006 04:48
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Changes to accesskeys and tooltips
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at wikimedia.org>


Pretty soon, likely within the next week, I'll be moving all
accesskeys and tooltips out of Monobook.js and implement them
server-side.  This may affect personal scripts that implement custom
accesskeys; they'll have to be revised a bit to find the elements
themselves rather than relying on their presence in the "ta" array,
but it shouldn't be difficult.  Sites that have modified Monobook.js
should not have their global changes affected by this directly,
although they may have to rework them when the id's are changed.

The tooltip for any given element that has a tooltip will be stored in
a message "tooltip-x", where x is the element's HTML id, and can be
modified as usual by sysops.  The accesskey, likewise, will be stored
in a message "accesskey-x".

For developers: currently this is in a branch, branches/simetrical/.
Help converting over the language files would be greatly appreciated
(via commits or, for non-devs, patches), but I'll do it myself if
necessary.  I'll make this concurrent with reworking the id's/classes,
just for simplicity.
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