Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:55 UTC
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.
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.
(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 ...
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.
