On Mar 30, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs, > > It's been a (long) while since the introduction of the xwiki/2.0 syntax > and the new rendering engine (introduced in 1.5, declared "usable" in > 1.8, set as default in 1.9). This means that since ~2008, most of the > development and maintenance effort has gone into the new rendering > engine and the new WYSIWYG, and this left the xwiki/1.0 syntax and old > WYSIWYG editor mostly unmaintained. > > All the platform and XE documents have been migrated away, but there are > still XEM documents using the old syntax. > > I'm proposing to hide the xwiki/1.0 syntax by default, so that it's no > longer easy to create a new document in that syntax (unless a template > is used) or to select it as the new syntax for an existing document. It > will continue to be available for existing documents. > > +1 from me. > > (I guess the 72h rule won't be applied since the next 72 hours are > holidays for lots of developers) AFAIK the good part is that even if an extension uses xwiki/1.0 syntax it'll still work since the xwiki.rendering.syntaxes property only controls the list of syntaxes listed when editing a page. Thus to summarize: * users will not be able to create new pages in xwiki/1.0 syntax * existing apps will not fail If I'm not wrong then it's great and +1 from me. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
