Last modified: 2014-08-24 19:16:46 UTC
See e.g. http://parsoid-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org/wikimania2014wiki/Submissions%2FVisualEditor_%E2%80%94_engineering_against_the_odds?oldid=47825 vs https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/VisualEditor_%E2%80%94_engineering_against_the_odds?oldid=47825 Wikitext: ; '''Sunday August 10, 12:30, [[Frobisher 123]]''' Parsoid HTML: <dl><dt> <b>Sunday August 10, 12</b></dt><dd><b>30, <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="./Frobisher_123">Frobisher 123</a></b></dd></dl> PHP parser HTML: <dl><dt><b>Sunday August 10, 12:30, <a href="/wiki/Frobisher_123" title="Frobisher 123">Frobisher 123</a></b></dt></dl> It looks like this might be a syntax ambiguity, but hopefully we can have bug-for-bug compatibility with the PHP parser? :)
Also, if you try to edit this, the resulting wikitext is something like '''Sunday August 10, 11''':30, [[Frobisher 123]]''' . It's trying to close the bolding twice.
Thankfully, this is not related to time, but more related to context-sensitive tokenization of the ":" char in a dt-dl list. ;a:b ;''a:b'' The behavior require a bit more testing. Ideally, this is reasonably well-behaved that it can be fixed in the tokenizer without requiring a DOM transformation fixup.
Change 155868 had a related patch set uploaded by Arlolra: b/i context aware parsing of definition list colon https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/155868
Updating the title to reflect that this is not just i/b wikitext context, but more general. As indicated in comment 2, this could use some more testing to better spec out what the right behavior is.
