On 17 Mar 2003 04:26:44 -0800, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 03:41, Richard Grevers wrote:
How come wikipedia doesn't support markup such as <abbr title="Sergeant">Sgt.</abbr> (It currently displays the raw HTML code)
That's HTML markup, Wikipedia is a wiki and uses wiki markup.
A limited subset of HTML markup is allowed, largely inherited from what UseModWiki allowed, and mainly with the intent of providing visual effects that we don't have a wiki way for (eg, tables).
What you're talking about is semantic markup, which is a trickier thing by far.
Abbr has always been regarded as structural markup and thus has survived through unto XHTML 1.1 strict. Yet ironically, deprecated presentational stuff like <b> is supported. A Wiki equivalent of <abbr> is needed then (and <acronym>, presumably.