On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org wrote:
Using sub-resources rather than the random switch to /w/index.php is more important for caching (promotes deterministic URLs) and does not seem to involve similar trade-offs.
Note that "promotes deterministic URLs" applies only to cases where only one parameter other than 'title' is provided to index.php (usually this parameter is 'action'). If the URL has more than one parameter other than 'title', you're still out of luck.
"But you can turn on $wgActionPaths to remove 'action' from the query string too!" you say? But then you're still stuck if the URL has two parameters other than 'action' and 'title'. Such as "offset" and "limit", for example.