https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40124
--- Comment #19 from Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> 2012-12-03 21:29:38 UTC --- (In reply to comment #18) > (In reply to comment #14) > > [I]'d use 'userjs-' as the prefix, as 'ujs-' isn't too obvious. > > I'd recommend using a prefix like "gadget" instead since "user scripts" are > something else ("user scripts" are non-modularised subpages of a User page). Yes, and those might want to use this as well. Also, this would theoretically go into core, where there's no notion of 'gadgets'. > As for whether we should support allowing arbitrary keys in user preferences > storage, I think not. For the following reasons: > > * It can easily conflict with core or extension preferences. A documented prefix would prevent that. > * There is no central registry. No rules, no validation, no labels, no > documentation. It doesn't have a default-value system or any other system. The default value is 'undefined'. The rest would be handled by each script itself. > * It can easily conflict with other gadgets, site scripts and user scripts. It seems obvious to me that scripts would each have to use a prefix as well. > So what about the use case mentioned in comment 0? That is valid indeed and > has > been filed as bug 21897. In fact implementation has already began in Salvatore > Ingala's branch of the Gadgets extension. It implements a small dedicated > key/value storage for gadgets that want it. It has value type validation and > will provide them in-context. It's all very nice, but I was hoping for something that could be reimplemented within my lifetime. Especially since I already implemented what you're describing myself on pl.wiki, basing it on cookies + the undocumented options API that worked at the time. (I decided to do it due to the glacial pace of changes in MW itself - I know WMF engineers are overworked.) I was hoping that it could be allowed to work again. (Linked above, it's called gConfig, implemented as a gadget[1].) [1] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-gConfig.js -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
