From: Adam S. <ad...@pe...> - 2002-02-21 16:47:44
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> Well, I'll be the curmudgeon here and voice two objections: one, the > comment will appear in the HTML source and likely won't make any sense > to the end user who views it (and won't know it came from the Wiki my assumption was that anyone who was viewing the html source was probably smart enough to investigate :-) > markup); and two, we are arbitrarily letting some HTML through and not > others, like <i> and its kin; so we now send a confusing message to end > users ("HTML is not allowed! Use HTML comments for your Wiki markup!") i thought the new markup did allow very simple html (ie. <b>,<i>,<em>, etc) which is why i suggested it. > My preference would be for Wiki-specific comment tags; but thinking of > Ari's approach, there is no equivalent in the course of normal writing > (except "asides" like this statement in parentheses). > > Maybe ((I am a comment)) would suffice. Flame me as you must. that's kinda nice though. i always forgot to step back from it and think "what's the most wiki way to do this" and should be fairly unlikely to happen accidentally. well i just did some reseach. (( doesn't appear anywhere in the main phpwiki wiki. it appears once on my personaltelco wiki and four times on meatball. all instances are ((situations like) this) or math like this ((4+7)*6). since none of those should match ((.*)) we should be fairly safe. also, i did want to say to everyone here. one of the reasons i like phpwiki is that it really trys to keep things wiki and keep things simple while progressing onto new features. i love all the features in twiki (and moin is getting there) but they are getting aesthetically ugly and over complicated. usemod i think is the "most true wiki" but it's a little featureless for my tastes. anyway, just wanted to say thanks, i think ya'll strike pretty much the perfect balance with phpwiki and i'm happy to do my (very) little part to help out. adam. |