On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Steve Summit <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometime between yesterday and today, the edit summary field on > en.wp's edit page lost its "type=text" attribute. It now reads: > > <input name="wpSummary" size="60" value="" id="wpSummary" > maxlength="200" tabindex="1" /> > > Lo and behold, type=text is the default, so it doesn't actually > break a standards-compliant browser, but it's kind of an an odd > change. (I noticed because it mildly broke a bot of mine, that > assumed type=text only by accident, and after printing some > extraneous error messages.)
It was part of some much-needed code cleanup I did to the editing page. Is it causing any problems? You should note that bots *should not* be using the UI, as breaking changes such as this. They should use the API which is set up for bots. Even using the UI, you should use a proper HTML parser, not regexes (as I suspect you were using) to parse the HTML. -- Andrew Garrett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
