"K. Peachey" p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote in message news:AANLkTinaNRjcoHO_0rAc4AmFS3gT98HKR0nz2yzpkOHk@mail.gmail.com...
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
As the matter of fact, MediaWiki serves HTML5 by default. The only reason why it is still not enabled on Wikipedia is backward compatibility with numerous screen-scraping scripts/tools. However, they had their last warning recently - HTML5 was briefly enabled a couple of times and there's no guarantee that next time it will not stick :D
Was this written anywhere? where and what is the date?
I thought it was the issue that broke access for certain IE users that resulted in it disabled last time..... We have been telling people not to screen scrape for YEARS and to use the api instead where possible, We should just re-enable it and let them solve their own problems.
In a perfect bonsai model of the IPv6 implementation, the recent enabling of $wgHTML5 prompted a mass panic to rewrite TWINKLE, enwiki's flagship javascript anti-vandal-plus-hundreds-of-extra-random-bells-and-whistles package, which had sat essentially untouched throughout our many warnings. It's moderately amusing to watch, but to be fair to them it is a huge codebase and it's not unreasonable to give them a month or so to sort it out. Most other wikis just copy from enwiki, so they're both the driving force, and the heel draggers... :-D
--HM