On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:06:18AM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
So how about using XHTML internally and when sending to WYSIWYG, but if the user wants to manually edit it can be converted to wikitext and then back?
Size.
One of the reasons wikitext is as easy to comprehend as Rob and I assert that it is (and you disagree with) is that it is *physically compact*.
Hey, brion: what's the size of article bodies right now, in GB? :-)
That way, third parties can make easy use of the dumps,and WYSIWYG becomes easier to work with, but those who really want the old markup can use it. There's no particular reason there shouldn't be a basically one-to-one correspondence between wikitext and XHTML ??? the latter would largely just be a translation of the former into different syntax.
If there are two formats which are exactly round-trippable, and one of them is a) smaller, and b) supported by the current code... why would we change, again?
Cheers, -- jra