Re: MediaWiki escape function

It is in the form when you edit articles with the Examples template, if you
have not seen it.
Should I change the text for now, or keep it intact until you investigate
further?



☆*PhistucK*


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Renoir Boulanger <renoir@w3.org> wrote:

> Oh,
>
> Right.
>
> I haven’t seen that warning.
>
> Let’s visit why we cannot do that.
>
>
>
> On 2014-07-31, 12:05 PM, PhistucK wrote:
> > Are you saying that "Raw example text (no syntaxhighlight):" means I
> should
> > add <syntaxHighlight> to the example?
> > Those parentheses told me the exact opposite. I never added it.
> >
> >
> > ☆*PhistucK*
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Renoir Boulanger <renoir@w3.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> (Adding Eliezer, our SMW expert)
> >>
> >> I just made some tests on [0]. I wonder why it hasn’t been told yet, but
> >> it works! /o/
> >>
> >> Look at the source at, it shows a valid code sample and we didn’t need
> >> to write escaped code.
> >>
> >> In short, this works :)
> >>
> >> <syntaxHighlight lang="html5">
> >>   <some>HTML</some>
> >>   <script>
> >>     var hi = "world";
> >>   </script>
> >> </syntaxHighlight>
> >>
> >> Maybe we should update the Gotchas, and make sure the SemanticMediaWiki
> >> form at the code samples actually use that extension directly, instead
> >> of us writing the syntaxHighlight tag every time.
> >>
> >> Opinion?
> >>
> >>   [0]: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/dom/ValidityState/rangeOverflow
> >>
> >> On 2014-07-31, 7:43 AM, Renoir Boulanger wrote:
> >>> Just to confirm a detail.
> >>>
> >>> Did you try freeform code  inside
> >>>
> >>> <syntaxHighlight>
> >>>   var hi = "world";
> >>> </syntaxHighlight>
> >>>
> >>> Its using GeSHI as a MW extension and you can specify language and line
> >> numbering.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Renoir Boulanger | Developer operations engineer
> >>> W3C | webplatform.org
> >>>
> >>> http://w3.org/people/#renoirb  ✪  https://renoirboulanger.com  ✪
> >>  @renoirb
> >>> ~
> >>>
> >>> On July 31, 2014 4:06:09 AM EDT, PhistucK <phistuck@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> (I googled it, "mediawiki escape apostrophe")
> >>>> Either use {{'}}, or (preferred, I believe) &#39; (twice, for the
> >>>> double
> >>>> one).
> >>>>
> >>>> I added it to the Gotchas page.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you for working on this!
> >>>>
> >>>> ☆*PhistucK*
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Rob^_^ <iecustomizer@hotmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>   Hi et al....
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It takes a long time to transpose HTML and java script examples into
> >>>> media
> >>>>> wiki friendly syntax....
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have written a small MSIE context menu extension to help in the
> >>>>> process... it uses the following escape function...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> function htmlEscape(s) {
> >>>>>     s = s.replace(/&/g, '&amp;');
> >>>>>     s = s.replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
> >>>>>     s = s.replace(/</g, '&lt;');
> >>>>>     //s = s.replace(/"/g, '&quot;');
> >>>>>     s = s.replace(/'/g, '\'');
> >>>>>     s = s.replace(/=/g, '{{=}}');
> >>>>>     s = s.replace(/\|/g, '{{!}}');
> >>>>>     return s;
> >>>>> }
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> with the help of
> >>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Style_Guide/Gotchas
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Q1. How do I escape double-single quotes.... (‘’)... I have raised an
> >>>>> issue ticket for this, but a quick answer would be helpful. eg... var
> >>>>> foo=’’; gets transposed to var foo=;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Q2. Are there any other gotcha’s for escaping html and script?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Once completed I can package an installer for IE, Webkit and Gecko
> >>>> for ppl
> >>>>> to use....
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Greetings from Australia.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Renoir Boulanger  |  Developer operations engineer
> >> W3C  |  Web Platform Project
> >>
> >> http://w3.org/people/#renoirb  ✪  https://renoirboulanger.com/  ✪
> >>  @renoirb
> >> ~
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Renoir Boulanger  |  Developer operations engineer
> W3C  |  Web Platform Project
>
> http://w3.org/people/#renoirb  ✪  https://renoirboulanger.com/  ✪
>  @renoirb
> ~
>
>