"K. Peachey" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> > wrote: >> As the matter of fact, MediaWiki serves HTML5 by default. The only >> reason why it is still not enabled on Wikipedia is backward >> compatibility with numerous screen-scraping scripts/tools. However, >> they had their last warning recently - HTML5 was briefly enabled a >> couple of times and there's no guarantee that next time it will not >> stick :D > Was this written anywhere? where and what is the date? > > I thought it was the issue that broke access for certain IE users that > resulted in it disabled last time..... We have been telling people not > to screen scrape for YEARS and to use the api instead where possible, > We should just re-enable it and let them solve their own problems.
In a perfect bonsai model of the IPv6 implementation, the recent enabling of $wgHTML5 prompted a mass panic to rewrite TWINKLE, enwiki's flagship javascript anti-vandal-plus-hundreds-of-extra-random-bells-and-whistles package, which had sat essentially untouched throughout our many warnings. It's moderately amusing to watch, but to be fair to them it is a huge codebase and it's not unreasonable to give them a month or so to sort it out. Most other wikis just copy from enwiki, so they're both the driving force, and the heel draggers... :-D --HM _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
