The Cunctator wrote:
On 7/27/02 11:24 AM, "tarquin" tarquin@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.