Hi all, There's a bot substituting {{clear}} with the equivalent HTML: <div style="clear: both"></div>. There are several reasons I can think of why this is a bad idea: * Editors won't realise there is a simple template they can add to achieve this effect * It gives the impression that embedding raw HTML is encouraged * It possibly makes reusing Wikipedia content in non-HTML contexts more difficult * It mixes implementation details with semantic markup * It's ugly and takes more characters (particularly wrt {{-}} )
There is one reason why it's a good idea: * Transclusion is "CPU-intensive"
Can someone tell me how important this last reason is? How bad is it to transclude frequently used templates? Could it be improved? Is this going to go away? Permanently substing a large number of templates to solve a short-term performance problem is, well, bad.
Thanks, Steve