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Rename "newer" and "older"
Rename newer and older to prev and next, respectively. Add newer and older as deprecated aliases to prev and next.
Why: naming these tags “newer” and “older” only makes sense for lists sorted by some timestamp in descending order. There are plenty of other ways to sort article lists, e.g. score desc for search results.
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Re: Rename "newer" and "older"
If you arrive on an individual article page (without following a ‘next’ link) that has a ‘next’ and ‘prev’ link, what does ‘prev’ mean? That never makes sense. At least older/newer makes sense if you’re sorting by timestamp (which is the default). Those that know how to change the default order can also change how the older/newer link is displayed.
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I’m only talking about the older and newer tags, which are for article list pages only. I’m not talking about changing what the tags do, only their names.
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Ruud, not sure if I get your point, but Jeff is talking about older/newer tags for article list pagination, not for individual article browsing (which, by the, to browse individual articles one by one, we rely on link_to_next/link_to_prev, which forces sorting by timestamp).
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My bad. Still, the same thing applies.
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I don’t see how. The actual link text is up to the designer, and would remain so.
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‘next’ isn’t possible as a tag name, because it conflicts with the PHP function ‘next’.
For backwards compatibility, changing tag names isn’t a good idea.
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Noted, thanks.
Suggestion amended to “next_page” and “prev_page”.
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