I chatted a bit about <span> with Tim and others on IRC, and there's no
general objection to it. My original objection was that at the time it
was requested there was no way to set up style sheet classes through
the wiki, making it a semantically void element no better than the
hated <font>. <span style="font-face:'Arial'"> isn't any
better in any
legitimate sense than <font face="Arial">.
However since then we _have_ added a way to add to the global
stylesheets in the wiki (at least for the main skins), so I withdraw
this objection. It could be easier, clearer, and more cohesive than it
is (doesn't apply to all skins etc), but it's a start.
<span> is now added to the whitelist for 1.4.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)