On 11-08-31 09:02 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 31 August 2011 15:32, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: >> I *hate* action urls. They overly complicate Article and related classes, and >> date from a time before special pages existed. While on the one hand I think >> the cleanup recently to make Action classes and move the code out was a >> positive thing...I agree the better course of action is to kill them >> entirely. Of >> course, things like action=edit should work as back-compat for near eternity >> (supporting action=foobar redirects to Special:Foobar/Title would take very >> little code). > We should probably be commenting on the wiki, but I'm at work at the > moment and this is quicker. While it may well be true that special > pages are better from a programming point of view, I much prefer > action urls from a user point of view. I quite often get to pages by > modifying urls rather than clicking links (why load an article before > editing it when you can go straight to the edit page?) and I find it > much easier to do that with action urls than special pages. If nothing > else, it means the edit page and the article page are next to each > other in the alphabetical list of recently viewed pages that appears > when I start typing. And that's one of the reasons why my proposal preserves the use of action urls and makes them and special pages one and the same.
I considered the arguments pro-action and pro-specialpages when I wrote this up and took them all into account. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
