https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40346

--- Comment #10 from Isarra <[email protected]> 2012-09-30 16:12:58 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> 
> First off, not all preferences can be reproduced with css/javascript. Certain
> preferences really should be handled server side.
> 
> Having that said, a gadget repository is probably not a good solution for 
> this.

Not a solution, but having a central repository of gadgets would help with at
least getting some of the random styling tweaks people have grown fond of out
of core. It would need to be easily searchable, however, as indeed such a thing
would get very large very quickly. Rather like some wikis' lists of gadgets
already, really.

> I'd say we can create an extension called "LegacyPreferences" that implements
> them exactly the way they used to be in core (be in server side, client side 
> or
> both, whatever the implementation was in core). Then when preference is 
> removed
> from core, but some people still want it, it can be moved there instead. 

Would that result in the preferences still showing up as regular preferences on
any wiki using it, then? While that would be an improvement to core for new
projects, it only solves part of the issue as there wouldn't be much of a
usability improvement for those with an existing userbase that would demand it.

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