On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 07:43:22AM -0700, Toby Bartels wrote:
Jan Hidders raved (I assume he meant "ranted"):
Er, yes, I did. That's one of my problems when I start ranting; I get inarticulate. :-)
The question isn't how easy "'''" is to learn. The question is how easy "<b>" is to learn. The answer to that is, it's pretty darned easy; therefore, since people will try it, it should be allowed.
Just for clarity, I wasn't arguing that simple HTML like <b> is more difficult than ''', but just reacting to the suggestion of the reverse. It's when people start using <DIV> and complex <TABLE>s and <VAR> and <STRONG> when things start becoming harder to understand and edit for the average user. Other than that there are also technical reasons such as the simplicity of the parser and the control that we would have over the HTML that we send to the browsers of the reader.
-- Jan Hidders