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Experimental: "parselet" minimal PHP implementation of Parsoid for VE
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There's a lot of demand for VisualEditor on third-party MediaWiki instances but the Parsoid dependency is a potential roadblock for site admins.

If total source compatibility with Wikipedia articles/templates is not required, perhaps we could get away with a PHP implementation of the HTML<->wikitext conversion that's a lot simpler, and wouldn't require the external node-based daemon. This could ship as a class that comes in the VisualEditor extension, if that makes sense, or a library, or ..... who knows. Anyway, worth trying out briefly.

Alternative is to say "folks wanting this should use HTML content model", in which case VE also needs to support that...

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• brion created this task.Feb 2 2015, 10:37 PM
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Jdforrester-WMF subscribed.Feb 2 2015, 10:39 PM

Oh, my eyes. Can we come up with a less-insane name? :-)

• brion renamed this task from Experimental: "pharsoid" minimal PHP implementation of Parsoid for VE to Experimental: "parselet" minimal PHP implementation of Parsoid for VE.Feb 2 2015, 10:41 PM
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How's "Parselet"? :)

Jdforrester-WMF added a comment.Feb 2 2015, 10:42 PM

I don't actually care, but "Parselet" is cute. :-)

• GWicke added subscribers: • GWicke, tstarling.Feb 2 2015, 10:43 PM

@brion, afaik @tstarling already tried to port the serializer.

• brion mentioned this in T88353: VisualEditor mode for storing HTML content model directly (without Parsoid).Feb 2 2015, 10:50 PM

@GWicke -- I actually don't want to make a port, but a simplified markup that would explicitly break some source compat. (If that ends up being too weird then I'll aim for the HTML content-model case and see what that'll take. Opened task T88353 for that, since it'd still need some tweaks.)

Krenair subscribed.Feb 2 2015, 10:51 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Feb 3 2015, 6:22 PM
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• brion closed this task as Declined.Jan 29 2018, 7:37 PM

Dropping this old experimental idea task (though we're now more seriously talking about a PHP version of Parsoid for the future, which will be on separate tasks).

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