From: "Brion L. VIBBER" brion@pobox.com
Someone wrote in [[wikipedia:Bug reports]] today about the ruby tags (<ruby>, <rb>, <rt>, <rp>) being disabled, and requesting to have them reinstated.
Well you probably know that my position is that allowing HTML tags was one of the biggest mistakes ever made in the history of Wikipedia software. But they are here now and we can't make them go away, so we have to deal with them anyway. These tags look very useful to me, so I agree with allowing them.
As a technical remark I would like to see a central array or something that records what tags are allowed (and perhaps even how they might be nested and what attributes they may have). For instance, in presenting the search results I have to deal with HTML tags that might be present, and it would be pleasant if this would automatically adapt if new tags are allowed.
-- Jan Hidders