- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:40:33 -0500
- To: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me>
- CC: public-webplatform@w3.org
Hi, Garbee- Actually, I have reservations about suggesting we use HTML markup. We've talked about going from wikitext to markdown, or even to an HTML-based system. Mixing HTML markup in there make automatic conversion much, much harder. Regards- -Doug On 11/16/12 12:29 PM, Jonathan Garbee wrote: > Since launch there has been some frustration about the markup being > used. I suggest we actually allow as much plain HTML markup as > possible. A list of permitted markup can be found on the MediaWiki site > [1]. This would help clear up some confusion and help stop overloading > the templates like what was brought up in another thread [2]. Also since > most people editing will know HTML markup, they won't need to learn > mediawiki markup to make basic edits (unless they want to deal with > links, then we have an issue.) > > Thoughts? > > -Garbee > > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext#Permitted_HTML > [2] > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webplatform/2012Oct/0216.html >
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