One thing I noticed after resurrecting the test suite: text in double tics is now rendered as "<i>" instead of "<em>". Was this a consciously-made change, or just an error introduced into the parser at some point?
Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com writes:
One thing I noticed after resurrecting the test suite: text in double tics is now rendered as "<i>" instead of "<em>". Was this a consciously-made change, or just an error introduced into the parser at some point?
Because the WP markup is layout markup, using <i> is perfectly okay, unfortunately... Because we editors are stupid, we do not deserve semantic markup - that's what I was told more than once by the developers.
On 23/04/05, Karl Eichwalder ke@gnu.franken.de wrote:
Because the WP markup is layout markup, using <i> is perfectly okay, unfortunately... Because we editors are stupid, we do not deserve semantic markup - that's what I was told more than once by the developers.
That's pathetic. We want semantic markup! We want semantic markup!
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
One thing I noticed after resurrecting the test suite: text in double tics is now rendered as "<i>" instead of "<em>". Was this a consciously-made change, or just an error introduced into the parser at some point?
It wouldn't be particularly correct to render it semantically as "emphasis", because the double-tics just mean "italicize this text". Sometimes that's used for emphasis (in which case <em> would be correct), sometimes to italicize book titles (in which case <cite> would be correct), and sometimes to italicize variables (in which case <var> would be correct).
Unless we want to introduce three separate forms of wikimarkup for these three cases, <i> is at least less wrong than the other options...
-Mark
Delirium delirium@hackish.org writes:
Unless we want to introduce three separate forms of wikimarkup for these three cases, <i> is at least less wrong than the other options...
It's time to get rid of the wiki-markup - let's go for XML driven by a nice schema (DTD or RNG). The wiki-markup as used in the WP has changed to an expert system ("Geheimwissenschaft"). It is short, but cryptic. It is ambiguous and make it difficult to develop a consistent look and feel.
Without semantic markup articles are just TLOBs (text large objects). Advanced querying is hardly possible. With proper markup you can access the "history" of all cities easily.
If we do not switch now, our developers will re-invent XML and related technologies step-by-step.
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