Topic on User talk:Chughakshay16/ConventionExtension

Hi Akshay! I'm spending some of my extra time working on improvements to the HTMLForm classes in MediaWiki core. I don't know if you have experience with HTMLForm, but it's a pretty cool MW feature that makes it easy to construct MW-friendly and secure web forms. However, it's limited in what it can do and how it outputs forms. Right now, it only outputs forms wrapped in a table and table elements, which is kind of a pain in the butt and IMHO, not very usable. So one of my main goals is to make it so HTMLForm will output forms in a variety of possible formats: table, wrapped in divs, or just raw form elements. I imagine you'll be looking at using HTMLForm for your GSoC project, and just wanted to touch base with you and see what you think, let you know that I'm working on this, and see if there's any space for us to collaborate a bit. I hope all's going well - congrats again on being selected for GSoC :D

Its really nice of you to come and discuss this with me. And it really seems like something that I would be happy to collaborate in. Although at this point I havent made much use of HTMLForm class in any of my work, but as you point out I could really use it while implementing UI interfaces for my project. As you may have seen in my project schedule that I am not gonna be working on building UI interfaces before the 2nd of June, so I would suggest if we could start to work on this feature before May 21st and later on resume after 2nd of June . Well you could always send me an email at chughakshay16@gmail.com or just post it here for discussing any of the details regarding this feature. Looking forward to work with you. :)