Author: rene.kijewski
Description:
It would be often helpful, if a wikilink [[User:s.b.]] would render a code like <a href="..." class="ns-2">...</a> to let JavaScripts more easily iterate over a certain kind of links. This should of cause not interfere with the existing CSS classes "new", "mw-redirect" and whatsoever.
E.g. for scripts that highlight links to admins' user pages.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
ayg wrote:
We output too many classes already; this would be excessive. WONTFIX, IMO. If this would be useful, you can parse the href to get the namespace, given wgServer and a list of all namespaces.
Closing WONTFIX per comment #1, which I agree with wholeheartedly. The class creep needs to stop.
rene.kijewski wrote:
(In reply to comment #1)
We output too many classes already; this would be excessive. WONTFIX, IMO. If
this would be useful, you can parse the href to get the namespace, given
wgServer and a list of all namespaces.
I don't think it would be excessive. At most there would be 15 (well gzip'able) characters more per link. Even if there are a hundred links on a page, it still produces less characters than the <head> section.
My proposal could be used together with CSS only as well. So it would do something for the usability campaign just as well ...
ayg wrote:
Yes, every little change like this only adds a few more bytes. Add them together and you get a lot more bytes. The <head> is atrociously large as well.