The Cunctator wrote:
On 7/27/02 11:24 AM, "tarquin"
<tarquin(a)planetunreal.com> wrote:
I would hesitate before deprecating <b> and
<i> in wiki markup, but I
change those to the equivalent ' whenever I see them, and I don't think
they should be encouraged.
That's what deprecating means.
I think it's good practice to discourage HTML, but not ban it. TMTOWTDI.
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Ah. I stand corrected. From my experiences with HTML I had assume that
in hacker lingo "deprecated" was used to mean the opposite of "beta"
("doesn't work yet" ;) ie "doesn't work any more".
In response to Sean Barrett: I find that Wiki markup has so few rules
they've stuck pretty quickly. However, if '' and ''' are cryptic
to you,
don't use them. Stick to plain text, and the only thing you need to
remember is "\n\n" makes a paragraph break. A well-written article has
formatting as a mere embellishment: it is clear without it.