Steve Summit wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 6/5/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
When you see someone with a big, fancy, "cutesie" signature, it is obvious that (a) they spent a lot of time on it, and (b) it is very personal to them, it is part of their identity.
Yes, of course. This isn't something to be encouraged.
Indeed not. But (a) we "encouraged" it the day we implemented the "Raw signature" checkbox next to the Nickname field on the Preferences page,
This crap was well-entrenched before that. The 'raw signature' mode was added to minimize the damage caused by invalid code being used in hacked-up signatures breaking thousands of pages when bugs in the wiki got fixed.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)