Wikipedia talk:User scripts/Guide
Futher development
I'm thinking about moving this page to Meta, which seems like a better place. Any thoughts? Also, dividing the content into some subpages seems like a good idea at the moment, this should allow adding more information on some specific issues. —AlexSm 18:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
- You mean as a "Help:" page? Yeah, that might be an idea. Although that is somewhat messy since then you have to separate out all the (English) Wikipedia specific things and keep the text site-neutral. Which makes the text harder to use for Wikipedia editors. If you do the move then first check that they don't already have a similar page on Meta. Remember to add the proper templates at the top and bottom so we can import it back as a "Help:" page here at Wikipedia with a "Wikipedia specific" section.
- I suggest you keep this page here while you build the other page at Meta and let the Meta page mature a little before you perhaps make this page into a (soft) redirect to the local copy of the Meta page. (So we see the "Wikipedia specific" section.)
- What things are you thinking of splitting out to separate subpages? I see it covers some different subjects. I would like to change the order of the sections, for instance move the "Editing and loading the user script" and "CSS files" sections above the "DHTML methods".
- --David Göthberg (talk) 18:38, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
- Okay, I'll probably do just that: start with a copy on Meta. Subpages will alow me to explain some things in greater details without making the whole page look intimidating.
- The "DHTML methods" section is exactly what I wanted to get rid of, by moving most of its content to a subpage, cause it just looks like a bad attempt to teach some JavaScript and is not really related to the guide. So you can move it down or simply delete the irrelevant parts.
- —AlexSm 19:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Yeah, the DHTML section is somewhat confusing. But some of the text in there is useful for beginners and I am anyway not knowledgeable enough in JavaScript to tinker with that section. So I'll just move it to the end of the page for now.
- --David Göthberg (talk) 22:22, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Moving elements
Today User:Zvn edited section "Removing elements". He changed this:
- To move an element simply attach it in another place with appendChild() or insertBefore().
to this:
- To move an element simply attach it in another place with appendChild() or insertBefore() and remove the original element with removeChild().
I am just a beginner javacoder, but I think that is wrong. There is no need to remove the item from the old position manually, that happens automatically when one has inserted it in a new position.