* Philip Neustrom <[email protected]> [Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:50:32 -0800]: > Keep in mind that with our generic versioning framework we can version > and diff any structured data, independent of wiki page content. So > there's probably no need to stuff extension invocation inside of page > content. > Extension invocation inside of page content allows to build very flexible dynamic layout. One can mix output of various extensions (audio, video, forms) to create new functionality.
> Page-content plugins will need editor plugins, yeah (like our "include > page" plugin). But I think that's a good thing. > How do these plugin work when there is no XML "injection" into page content? How the final layout is being build? > The concerns you raise are probably valid for Wikipedia. We're > working with new communities, for the most part. (and our work isn't > based on MediaWiki - not sure if I made that clear in my original > message). > To the MediaWiki extension I develop, visual editor probably will multiply the amount of code by the factor of two. So, yes, programmer's life is much easier without that. However you are right, end-user will prefer visual editor. Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
