Steve Bennett wrote:
On 5/3/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think such templates are used already, but it's not efficient, it won't work on all wikis
Oh? Because of directionality?
Because wikis don't start with a predefined set of templates.
and it's not as flexible as HTML.
You mean because there are limits in what you can pass into a template as a parameter? My understanding was that that was primarily a problem for block elements that could contain massive chunks of code. But for <sup>, is it really a problem?
I mean because you can't support the full attribute set. Well, maybe you could, but the resulting template would be extraordinarily ugly and inefficient. And yes, you couldn't use the "|" character.
-- Tim Starling