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