https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16165

--- Comment #51 from Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> ---
We do use jQuery UI buttons in core.  mediawiki.feedback depends on
jquery.ui.dialog, which in turn depends on jquery.ui.button.

The fact that it looks like a link on mouseover (including URL in status bar
for applicable browsers) is a powerful hint that it can be used as a link.  I
agree not every user will pick up on this, but enough will (even without
reading about it) to justify core.

As I said, there are not really any other buttons that are used the same way in
MediaWiki.  The ones used in a vaguely similar way are in special pages, not
right there in the workflow.

There are many common use cases where this speeds things up:

1. Opening diffs in a new tab
2. Copying diffs to a talk page
3. Assembling multiple diffs for some kind of report

This is worth making easier.  The fact that it isn't extremely hard as is is
not a reason against making it easier.

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