On 11/15/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I'm still utterly unconvinced "errors" are ever a good idea.
As I wrote on the subject to this list last year (re WikiCreole):
Every combination of wikitext has to be able to do something (even if that's "just let it through"), because it is a *language*.
If people who can't work computers put a character out of place and the wiki engine just spits back "INVALID CONTENT", are they going to edit an article ever again? *Hell* no.
David, you seem to be railing against some argument to suddenly change the behaviour of the parser from rendering everything, to suddenly balking on bad input and spitting out "INVALID CONTENT" instead.
Has anyone suggested such a thing? Whence cometh thy fury?
FWIW, I anticipate that the new parser will behave much like the current one, but it could also generate useful warning messages if requested. These would presumably be shown to the person saving the page, at preview time, and also to the viewer if some option were enabled.
Steve