On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:33 +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
I do not ask for HTML, I vote for XML. Our all-time-morphing wiki-syntax is not user-friendly.
Yes, The current wiki syntax is dreadful, and getting worse with every release. But using XML doesn't solve the problem, it just puts up a big barrier to entry for newcomers.
I know I've been claiming to be working on it for some time now, but I really am...and I'm very close to releasing something for comment, so keep an eye out.
FWIW, in the current thread, I'm all for deprecating unneeded syntaxes now, even before we reform the whole package.