On 8/13/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Bringing this back on topic, Does anyone see a reason why it would be unreasonable to add a feature to mediawiki which would enable something like:
[[javascript:foo|something||arg1]] which gets converted to <a href="#" onclick="javascript:MW_UI_event_foo('arg1');;return false;">something</a>.
(and ditto for clickable image maps).
Right now tools like the popup media player and wikiminiatlas scan all anchor tags on load in order to add startup hooks, this causes a fair bit of wasted effort.
JavaScript URLs are usually viewed as a Bad Thing. Is there a demonstrable performance problem with adding the hooks dynamically?