On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > Great stuff. cc Wikidata, I know they were interested in replacing > their custom template engine... > I will respond to Krinkle's review for the client side library today. > Jon > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: >> After 14 months of discussion, HTML templating is now live in core >> MediaWiki. Currently only the server-side implementation has been merged. A >> client-side implementation has also been submitted, but is stalled in >> Gerrit (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/180647/). >> >> You can now use Mustache templates in your extensions and core code by >> calling TemplateParser->processTemplate(). Full documentation can be found >> at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:HTML_templates. >> >> There are three main impetuses for this new feature: >> >> 1. Improving the sanity and readability of MediaWiki code. Ideally, our PHP >> code should have little or no HTML in it. We should strive to keep our PHP >> interfaces high-level and with clear separation of concerns. We are a long >> way from conforming to anything like an MVC pattern, but this brings us one >> step closer to being able to achieve that. The work on OOjs and related >> interfaces is another important component of this. >> >> 2. Standardizing our templating implementations. There are currently six >> different HTML templating implementations in various MediaWiki >> extensions.[1] Hopefully, we can now reduce that number. >> >> 3. Moving MobileFrontend into core. We are also a long way away from >> achieving this goal, but now one step closer. MobileFrontend relies heavily >> on HTML templating, so having this feature in core is a pre-requisite to >> moving more MobileFrontend features over. >> >> I know there is still disagreement about the specific implementation >> details of this feature (such as the choice of Mustache), but this is just >> the first iteration of this feature and I hope we can work together to >> revise and improve it further. >> >> 1. >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library#Existing_implementations_in_MediaWiki_extensions >> >> Ryan Kaldari >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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