Author: ayg

Description:
This is a long-term request. The idea would be, basically, that namespaces like
Image and Category would no longer be magical. Probably this would be achieved
by something like making an abstract Namespace class that would have functions
like renderLink() and transclude(), so that these could behave differently for
different namespaces. (These would probably call functions of a Skin object
passed to them.) Thus Image/Category NSes wouldn't be special-cased in the
parser, but instead it would ask them to render the links and they would do
something appropriate.

Benefits: it's a moderately common request to have other namespaces that behave
like images, etc. (e.g., bug 2194). This is currently impossible. It's also
substantially cleaner and possibly more expected to not have special-casing
hardcoded everywhere. Extensions such as SMW that may want special behavior for
certain namespaces will also have a potentially cleaner way to do it. Etc.
Probably not very high-priority, but IMO it would be nice if we did this eventually.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement