Last modified: 2014-08-28 14:27:15 UTC
A module should be created with default external link icons and styling so that skins using a standard styling (using, compatible with, or similar to commonelements etc) don't need to reimplement and duplicate the entire external links styling out of another skin. Ideally this common module would replace the external link icons in both monobook and vector, as well as myriad custom skins, thus making it much easier to maintain this aspect of skins.
Note that the icons in Vector have been very recently removed (I don't have a commit link handy, sorry).
In reply to Bartosz Dziewoński from comment #1) > Note that the icons in Vector have been very recently removed (I don't have > a commit link handy, sorry). Odd. Bug 54604 suggested that consensus was rather against that.
Change 143173 had a related patch set uploaded by Isarra: New ResourceLoader module for external links to facilitate the creation of third-party skins. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/143173
Change 143173 merged by jenkins-bot: Introduce mediawiki.skinning module for external link icons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/143173
Whee~