On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Roan Kattouw <
roan.kattouw@...> wrote:
> About the hooks: most hooks should be in the backend, yes. However,
> extensions like ConfirmEdit need to return certain information (CAPTCHA
> URLs) to the user. There's a UI hook to do that in the UI, and there's
> an API hook to return that information to API users.
What you *should* have is a backend hook that allows cancellation of
an edit, with some way of passing back an error condition that can be
displayed by both the human UI and the API.
> The recurring theme here is that phase4 (if we ever go there) requires a
> rethinking of EditPage.php (and SpecialPreferences.php, BTW).
Sounds like an interesting project . . .
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