On 21/12/05, Uwe Brauer <oub(a)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".
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Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]