Last modified: 2007-03-27 21:15:39 UTC
Please add wgAction to JavaScript variables rendered at the beginning of the page with values similar to action parameter in URL + default value could be either empty or "view". Some scripts should be triggered only if certain action with page is being done and it's much easier to check the variable instead of having to get it from URL. Thanks
I don't think we want to add tons of superfluous variables. Is it hard to do var action = window.location.search.match(/^action=[^&]*|&action=[^&]*/i).replace(/[^=]*=/, ""); or whatever? I mean, it's a mouthful for sure, but it's not like the proposed variable would be very useful. Inclined to WONTFIX.
As a JS programmer myself I'd be inclined to WONFIX as well. The current variables on there sometimes require nasty hacks to otherwise get, adding this one isn't worth it as it can cleanly be retrieved otherwise.
(In reply to comment #2) > As a JS programmer myself I'd be inclined to WONFIX as well. The current > variables on there sometimes require nasty hacks to otherwise get, adding this > one isn't worth it as it can cleanly be retrieved otherwise. Are you trying to say, that starting the entire regexp machine is better than touch the variable? And what does nasty hacking of _other variables_ (got an example? I'd say, if you do nasty hacks, something is bad) have in common with adding of new simple one?
Action can't be cleanly retrieved from a URL; it may be present only in POST data for form submissions or only indirectly through knowing how $wgActionPaths are set up on the current wiki.
See also bug 8946.
Added in r20754.
