On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 03:41, Richard Grevers wrote:
How come wikipedia doesn't support markup such as
<abbr
title="Sergeant">Sgt.</abbr>
(It currently displays the raw HTML code)
That's HTML markup, Wikipedia is a wiki and uses wiki markup.
A limited subset of HTML markup is allowed, largely inherited from what
UseModWiki allowed, and mainly with the intent of providing visual
effects that we don't have a wiki way for (eg, tables).
What you're talking about is semantic markup, which is a trickier thing
by far.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)