On Wednesday 01 August 2007 21:56:32 Simetrical wrote:
But line breaks, cleared or not, are not semantic, and you have provided no use case where they're particularly more useful than a more semantic (and therefore more useful) wikitext equivalent.
Yes but people still use it for a _very_ good reason sometimes.
Have you ever looked into LaTex? * At first you just write your document with semantic elements only. * Then you tweak the individual elements a bit with global style variables. * At the end you need to add non-semantic tags at some places in order to get the desired result.
The same work flow applies for wikis especially for Wikipedia. You simply CANNOT stop people adding non-semantic tags into articles you cannot entirely stop people tweaking articles. Currently they are doing this with crappy HTML/CSS sytnax.
As br in every variant is the most used HTML element not covered by Wiki syntax I expanded the Wikicreole idea a bit for a _less_ explicit more semantic line break sign. Semantics aren't binary.
<br> may be the most used HTML tag in wikitext -- actually I'd be extraordinarily surprised if it beat out <div>, at least if you count template usage; where are your figures from?
Plain articles and talk pages. Templates anyways very often have wired syntax.
Arnomane