On Wednesday 01 August 2007 21:56:32 Simetrical wrote:
But line breaks, cleared or not, are not semantic,
and you have provided no use case where they're particularly more
useful than a more semantic (and therefore more useful) wikitext
equivalent.
Yes but people still use it for a _very_ good reason sometimes.
Have you ever looked into LaTex?
* At first you just write your document with semantic elements only.
* Then you tweak the individual elements a bit with global style variables.
* At the end you need to add non-semantic tags at some places in order to get
the desired result.
The same work flow applies for wikis especially for Wikipedia. You simply
CANNOT stop people adding non-semantic tags into articles you cannot entirely
stop people tweaking articles. Currently they are doing this with crappy
HTML/CSS sytnax.
As br in every variant is the most used HTML element not covered by Wiki
syntax I expanded the Wikicreole idea a bit for a _less_ explicit more
semantic line break sign. Semantics aren't binary.
<br> may be the most used HTML tag in wikitext
-- actually I'd be
extraordinarily surprised if it beat out <div>, at least if you count
template usage; where are your figures from?
Plain articles and talk pages. Templates anyways very often have wired syntax.
Arnomane