- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:36:06 -0500
- To: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>
- CC: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me>, public-webplatform@w3.org
Hi, Chris- On 11/18/12 5:53 AM, Chris Mills wrote: > Agree with Doug. > > I think this is a bit of a red herring, and learning wiki markup is > pretty trivial really. I on;y use HTML markup in situations where the > wiki markup results in really crappy results. Like when dealing with > nested list items. What sort of problems with nested list items? I've made a guide for creating lists in wikitext, in case that helps: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Style_Guide/Lists Regards- -Doug > Chris Mills Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera > Software Co-chair, web education community group, W3C Author of > "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" > (http://my.opera.com/chrismills/blog/2012/07/12/practical-css3-my-book-is-finally-published) > > * Try Opera: http://www.opera.com * Learn about the latest open > standards technologies and techniques: http://dev.opera.com * > Contribute to web education: http://www.w3.org/community/webed/ > > On 16 Nov 2012, at 19:40, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > >> 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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