Using display: none to enforce semantics is bad. It will then show up for many cell phone users, old screen readers, Lynx, etc.
I concur. Even modern feed aggregators will ignore CSS (even inline style="" directives).
The comment was probably a better idea, although unfortunately still
rather hacky.
Yeah it's hacky - I can't argue with that - but it's the only way I know of to deal with all three of the following:
1) HTML comments found in wikitext are stripped (we get around this by using an extension tag) 2) Whitespaces in extension output are converted to <br> and <p> tags (we get around this by putting it in an HTML comment) 3) Malicious users could prematurely end the comment by putting "-->" in the keyword text followed by <script> or any other HTML markup (we avoid this by base64 encoding all input and only decoding it during the meta parsing step).
If there's a better way to achieve this, I'm open to suggestions. I've been using this technique on extensions I've been developing since I haven't yet found a better way. But seriously, if there /is/ a cleaner way to do this I'd love to know about it :)
On 2/27/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/27/07, Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com wrote:
- Add a CSS rule to hide spans of class keyword (to MediaWiki:
Common.css):
span.keyword { display: none; }Using display: none to enforce semantics is bad. It will then show up for many cell phone users, old screen readers, Lynx, etc. The comment was probably a better idea, although unfortunately still rather hacky.
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