On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Krinkle <krinklemail(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Lewis Cawte wrote:
[...]
I do agree that some of those gadgets should not
be
extensions, however for example, Twinkle, would be a very nice
extension, as noted from various blips of activity from site owners
over IRC.
Maybe, but when done as an extension imho it should be integrated in
MediaWiki
with it's own preference page, adding the actions as actual actions
and interface
messages etc. Not as an extension that loads a few javascript files.
These shouldn't really be thought of as separate issues; there's no reason
we can't extend the Gadget interface to allow gadgets to define their own
preference panels cleanly, and I'm pretty sure that would be a win for
users.
Including for example non-JavaScript fallback (not as
a goal but as a
result of it being integrated).
Non-JS of course is the main thing that's hard to do in JavaScript. ;)
-- brion