On Jul 30, 2013 3:49 AM, "Marc A. Pelletier" marc@uberbox.org wrote:
On 07/29/2013 07:00 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Are there any wikitext constructions that are actually going to be deprecated?
I'm not privy to the architecture decisions, but I'm pretty sure that the absolute worst monstrosity is the possibility of opening markup in a (possibly deeply recursive or, worse, conditional) template that is closed in a different template
I can dream up horrors you can't even imagine. Consider a template consisting if two single quotes. For a demonstration, see http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Martijn_Hoekstra/Lovecraftian_horror2
Getting it rid of /just/ that would
lose us no content (though it would break some frankenstein-grade markup) and gain us a couple orders of magnitude in parsoid reliability and simplicity.
And probably would make most of the VE team cry in relief.
-- Marc
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