Ryan Hughes

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  • ie8 support

    Hi. We've got a site where a lot of the editors are using IE8. We found that jscalendar did not work in this context, because it was using browser detection to see that it was dealing with an IE browser, and then handling it thusly, rather than treating it as a standards-compliant browser. This is a fundamental problem with the idea of browser-based detection. If you want to see whether...

    2009-07-27 19:32:32 UTC in The Coolest DHTML Calendar

  • isNamespace and get...URL

    This one builds off my last one. It defines some useful functions: isNamespace($x) checks if $x is a namespace that is currently defined. It makes a call to the API and remembers the result, so only the first call to it is expensive. Also, there's get...URL functions, to get human-usable URLs from article titles: getArticleURL getHistoryURL getEditURL and the controversial...

    2009-04-02 15:34:19 UTC in SxWiki

  • Posting a NEW page via API

    Hi. Thanks for committing my last patch. Today I noticed that I hadn't tested creating a new page -- only editing an existing page. This patch has what's required to create a new page via the API.

    2009-04-01 20:54:05 UTC in SxWiki

  • Posting via API

    Mediawiki 1.13 has an API for page creation/editing. This patch allows us to take advantage of it, rather than having to resort to screen-scraping. The patch leave the screen-scraping intact, such that in cases where the creating/editing is not supported, it will fall back to screen-scraping.

    2009-03-31 21:43:06 UTC in SxWiki

  • gnome-open

    galaxor registered the gnome-open project.

    2007-08-27 20:05:15 UTC in gnome-open

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