Magnus Manske wrote:
There is the question of what browsers/versions to
test for. Should I
invest large amounts of time optimising performance in Firefox 3, when
FF4 will probably be released before WYSIFTW, and everyone and their
cousin upgrades? As a one-man-show, I have to think about these
things.
It depends what your goal is. If your goal is to use this by default with
core MediaWiki, it's going to have to support Internet Explorer 6 and
Firefox 3, as well as a lot of other browsers. If your goal is to create
another WikEd, it can support whichever browsers you choose to support.
Given the widespread use of Firefox 3, I can't see any widespread adoption
of this tool happening without support for it, even if Firefox 4 is on the
horizon.
Finally, there are, undoubtedly, a large number of
bugs hidden in the
code. I assume they will be weeded out, given enough eyeballs (testers
and developers).
Are you looking for testers and developers? Where would a tester submit a
bug report? The page at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIFTW doesn't seem
to address this.
Also, is the use of document.write() still required in order to install the
script? I thought that had been intentionally avoided for years in favor of
importScriptURI(). (I suppose that would be my first bug report.)
MZMcBride