On 12 May 2010 13:33, Platonides
<Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Alex Brollo wrote:
This
question gives me the opportunity for a question to experts about
server load. Is really so harder for the server to manage html tags like
<b>, </b>, <i>,</i> instead of usual wiki markup ''',
''? The former have a
great advantage since they are "well-formed tags" (even if they are
"deprecated html tags"), while wiki markup is not at all; this would make
much simpler to manage them by some bot scripts.
You can use <b> and <i> in the wiki. In fact '' and '''
translate into
<b> and <i>.
Which reminds me, why doesn't it translates into <strong> and <em> or
better yet, <span style="font-weight: bold"> and <span
style="font-style: italic;"> ?
It could still accept <b> and <i>, but translate them into correct HTML tags.
Because not all '' wants to emphasize nor all ''' to make it strong.
Old mediawiki did use <strong> and <em> but it was changed for the above
reasons.
You could use <span style="font-weight: bold">, but what's the point
of
that?
Using <b> and <i> where what you really want is to make it bold and
italic isn't deprecated.