On Apr 27, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Patrick Hall wrote:
Hi, One observation that may be related to the rate of creation of new articles: the markup is becoming positively bewildering.
Example, please?
In some ways it's harder than HTML -- just figuring out where the first paragraph is in the markup can be non-trivial.
I have not seen this kind of problem in articles. Templates, perhaps, but not articles. Maybe we need a template for {{excessivemarkup}} in articles? (and maybe template Talk pages?)
I can't imagine what a brand new user's first impression is when they click "edit" for the first time... I suspect it's often something along the lines of "eek, I don't want to break this."
I have "broken" many a page in my day, if by "broken", someone means "shifted content around on the display level", (and to users with table-based page rendering, this can be a terrifying thing), but the problem there, IMNSHO, is not the newbie user, it's broken CSS programming, and/or a fundamental misunderstanding of content vs. display.
-Bop