David Friedland wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Dec 22, 2004, at 1:48 PM, David Friedland wrote:
P.S. I have been running into lots and lots of font tags that make our output invalid XHTML but would be valid if they were span tags, but of course can't be span tags because span tags are forbidden. Can we PLEASE allow span tags so that we can begin the process of making Wikipedia pages be valid XHTML?
- Can you please check in the w3c validator and confirm that they
are invalid?
It's not valid XHTML 1.0-Strict. It's valid XHTML 1.0-Transitional, but that's not a markup standard that properly separates semantic from presentational markup.
- We're not adding new HTML tags, we already have too many. We hope
to reduce the number in the future but have other things to do.
OK. I'll throw in <hr>, <em>, <strong>, <i>, and <b> in addition to <font> for <span>. We don't have _any_ legitimate use for those tags because we already have wikimarkup for them--feel free to disable them. We do have legitimate use for <span> though. That's a reduction of 5 useless tags for 1 useful one. What a deal! If you really twist my arm, we can get rid of <code>, <cite>, and <h1> to <h6>--I haven't seen any legitimate uses of them either.
Do not twist MY arm by getting rid of hi to h6 they provide headings WITHOUT it comming in the table of contents. Usefull in some particular instances. thanks, GerardM