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Allow to request modules by CSS classes in content
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It would be nice to allow to load specified ResourceLoader modules by adding a CSS class in content. On server side the content gets parsed for special CSS classed and adds the corresponding modules to the list modules. Modules offer a list of CSS classes which are trigger for loading of this modules.

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Currently some modules get loaded by searching for CSS classes with JavaScript. See mediawiki.page.ready.js or MediaWiki:Common.js of some projects. Parsing on server side is a performance improvement because the modules can delivered with the other modules while loading. For pure CSS modules this would be an improvement because they can loaded on browser with disabled JavaScript. This feature is an enabler for cleaning the legacy shared.css.

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Fomafix created this task.Sep 22 2015, 8:27 AM
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Fomafix added projects: MediaWiki-ResourceLoader, Performance Issue.
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Schnark subscribed.Sep 22 2015, 8:49 AM

mediawiki.ui.button currently (and only temporarily) uses a simple string search on server side over the whole HTML for the class it provides: SkinTemplate.php, line 65, which actually works good enough in most cases, though it feels a little bit like a hack for me.

Fomafix added a comment.Sep 22 2015, 8:57 AM

Maybe this check can generalized to arbitrary CSS classes and a mapping to modules.

Fomafix mentioned this in T66969: When a message requires modules load the modules on parse.Oct 30 2015, 10:55 AM
Timeshifter mentioned this in T42618: jquery.tablesorter: Add support for a "fixed" column of row numbers..Nov 12 2015, 5:12 PM
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Krinkle edited projects, added MediaWiki-User-Interface, MediaWiki-Parser; removed MediaWiki-ResourceLoader.Nov 12 2015, 11:08 PM
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