Last modified: 2011-10-16 12:50:50 UTC
the diff-page is relativly difficult to read per machine, especially as it's layout isn't static, but changes depending on who made the edit, or if it's the latest edit etc... So I propose a JS variable for diff pages, to ease up the parsing. it doesn't need to include much, but at a minimum the exact ids. The syntax would be like: wgMetadata = {oldid:150446343, newid:150446351}; for http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ASandbox&diff=cur&oldid=prev (at current time that is)
Seems to me that it would be better to offer machine-readable diffs, or use external diffing in that situation, since the diff isn't supposed to be read by a machine.
This bug is irrelevant since long time back