On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Lewis Cawte wrote:
> [...]
> > I do agree that some of those gadgets should not be
> > extensions, however for example, Twinkle, would be a very nice
> > extension, as noted from various blips of activity from site owners
> > over IRC.
>
> Maybe, but when done as an extension imho it should be integrated in
> MediaWiki
> with it's own preference page, adding the actions as actual actions
> and interface
> messages etc. Not as an extension that loads a few javascript files.
>

These shouldn't really be thought of as separate issues; there's no reason
we can't extend the Gadget interface to allow gadgets to define their own
preference panels cleanly, and I'm pretty sure that would be a win for
users.



> Including for example non-JavaScript fallback (not as a goal but as a
> result of it being integrated).
>

Non-JS of course is the main thing that's hard to do in JavaScript. ;)

-- brion
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