Hi Gabriel Le 08/01/2014 21:37, Gabriel Wicke a écrit : > I'd like to ask you for your input on a change to the DOM spec [1] we > are considering. The idea is to simplify links by removing the explicit > mw:WikiLink or mw:ExtLink typeof attributes: > > <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="./Main_Page">Main Page</a> > <a rel="mw:ExtLink" href="http://example.com";>http://example.com</a> > > would become just > > <a href="Main_Page">Main Page</a> > <a href="http://example.com";>http://example.com</a> > > Reasons for this change are: > > - The external vs. internal link distinction is pretty simple to do > with a prefix match on the href. > > - When editing, an internal link can turn into an external one and > vice-versa. Editors should not have to deal with updating the typeof > to reflect the information already available in the href attribute. > > - The page source will be slightly cleaner and smaller. > > Potential disadvantages we see are > > - For ISBN links [2], we will continue to link to Special:BookSources, > which looks internal. Matching on that to identify ISBN links should > however not be harder than it is right now. > > Are you currently relying on these typeofs? Do you see other issues with > this proposed change?
I rely on this information (the "rel" attribute) and this looks to me like a not so elegant move. Not clean and not robust, because what we will have to build (to identify an external link) a not so easy to maintain heuristic. I fully understand the need to build an efficient solution, I have myself an old computer, but wouldn't that be a compromise to shorten "mw:WikiLink" and "mw:ExtLink". Removing "./" in the href value makes really sense to me. Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
