On 06/04/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/6/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
This is a philosophical issue about how Wiki works. The lack of hard syntax rules that people must conform to facilitates discover and greatly softens the learning curve. ... it also means that our content will perpetually be rubbish syntactically.
It could be made sane on save, though, rather than on render.
Hmm ... could give unexpected results. "That's not the text I entered!" And bug reports.
OTOH, MediaWiki reporting it fixed syntax problems might be enough.
OTOOH, correcting a typo and getting back that 20 other changes have been made could be ... doing the unexpected.
- d.