On 10/02/10 11:20 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Does it need to be more complicated than that?
If so, exactly what is missing in my overly
simplistic approach?
It's fundamentally an ad-hoc "temporary" solution. The toolserver
is
great for prototyping, but anything integrated into the actual wiki
should really be implemented as software. Toolserver tools also have a
reputation for poor visual and functional integration with the rest of
MediaWiki, poor quality standards, and general bugginess and ugliness.
To be fair, it's easier to write a toolserver script than a MediaWiki
extension (because 99% of developers are lazy, and nobody has to check
your code for XSS vectors). It also goes up immediately, as compared to
writing a MediaWiki extension.
However, if you want to do it properly, I think it's worth the effort.
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