On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:02:48PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 11/11/07, Minute Electron minuteelectron@googlemail.com wrote:
Or just use XHTML: L'<strong>arc de triomphe</strong>
Or for that matter, <I>. But we have to assume there is some value in having our own special syntax. Or we wouldn't have one. Or something.
There are two possible values: typing angle brackets is hard and geeky.
No, really. Ask around: it's one notch scarier.
And secondly, we aren't a *native* HTML environment, mostly to avoid <P>, which makes *me* run screaming into the night everytime I post a blog entry...
I was going to observe that it makes it easier to lock down dangerous HTML, but it doesn't really.
Cheers, -- jra