I wish you the best of luck in your campaign. I've asked for <span> tags TWICE before and got shot down twice with the explanation that <span> tags make the wikitext harder to read (as though <div> tags were somehow better) and that there should be some universal styles for styling particular things, with wikiformatting tags to go along with them. I hope you can be more convincing than I was. Of course, said universal styles never got made and we go on, unable to make <span> tags, and with no real substitute other than the long-deprecated <font> tag and its friends. Enabling them requires changing exactly one line of code.
Sigh.
- David
Peter Gervai wrote:
hello,
from time to time I would like to use <span> tag for inline element styling, but it's not supported, so I have to use <div> and dirty tricks to get it done, but it's not the same: since DIV is not an inherent inline element, it's very hard to use it for blending something into the normal text flow (like math for example, see my hack on meta/mediawiki user guide/math using div instead of span).
maybe i'm wrong and there shouldn't be such styling on wikipedia pages (people against tags would say "it makes wikitext harder to read for nontech people"), so please share your opinion. I would like to use span, and would like to have it enabled in mediawiki pages. As far as I know it does not present cross-scripting or other vulnerabilities (I didn't explore this topic too deep though).
if nobody objects or convinces me that I'm on the road to hell I'll try to convince brion (which is probably the hardest part :)).
thanks, peter