https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32858
--- Comment #21 from Phillip Patriakeas <dragonlordofxant...@gmail.com> 2011-12-23 17:03:14 UTC --- (In reply to comment #20) > No, putting backslash is not javascript ! Are you listening to yourself? Using a backslash in strings to escape particular characters so they aren't incorrectly parsed is done by just about everybody who writes JS, including those not writing it on MediaWiki installations - it's the simplest and most obvious way to prevent unwanted parsing by the JS engine running the script. Using the backslash to prevent unwanted parsing by MediaWiki is a natural and obvious extension of this built-in syntax without any downsides; every JS programmer immediately recognises what's going on when they see the backslash, even if they don't understand the reasoning for its being there. How exactly, then, is "putting backslash ... not javascript"? (In reply to comment #18) > 3 - Tracking of users seems only useful for the total usage count only, not > for > the user names. Michael M. gave an explicit counterexample to this in comment 17: 'Just this week I updated one of my scripts in a not-100-%-backwardscompatible way, so I had to inform the users of my script about the changes. With the "What links here" function this was no problem.' If the script tracking only listed the number of users with the script installed, that notification would have been impossible. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
