On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh please no! > > - Trevor > > On 12/7/10 7:26 AM, Platonides wrote: >> Daniel Friesen wrote: >>> PHP -> XSL doesn't quite feel like much of an improvement in terms of >>> cutting down on the verbose redundant code boilerplate required to >>> insert something. >>> ie:<xsl:value-of select="title"/> doesn't look much better than<?php >>> $this->text("title") ?>, as opposed to {$title|escape:html}. >> This seems an argument for using the preprocessor for the skin system, >> in order to include the variables into the raw html. >>
I was first like wtf as well, but on the other hand this way skin building would be much more accesibles for non-programmer mediawiki users. Regular wiki users do know wikitext, as opposed to PHP. I'm not entirely sure though that this would be good for your sanity. I wouldn't discard the idea immediately, insane as it may seem. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
