On 11 August 2010 17:11, Liangent <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/11/10, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Or keep the old parser around to deal with old revisions. Revisions that >> work >> with the new parser can be flagged as such. > This made me think of Quirks mode in browsers. > We can make the new parser (and standardized wikitext syntax) more > strict by treating many edge cases as errors, and if the new parser > detected any error when parsing, use the old parser instead. If Tim will buy it :-) The non-quirks mode had better cover *almost all* current revisions on the major WMF wikis, at the least. (The most recent current version dumps would be suitable test data.) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
