On 21/12/05, Uwe Brauer oub@mat.ucm.es wrote:
What is the *problem* in using HTML constructs? Speed in parsing?
I think the main problem is *consistency* - if you're trying to let as many people edit as possible, having multiple variants of markup for doing [nearly] the same thing just makes everything that much harder to learn, and gives people that much more chance to be baffled when looking at the source.
Of course, you could consistently use a subset of HTML, and some would argue that that's at least as easy to learn as the arcane "punctuation soup" wiki-markups. But in a wiki that did that I would then disagree with someone who said "why don't we use the wiki-markup for italics, they're so much easier to type".
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]