LDC wrote:

Giskart wrote:

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I see that more and more people are use Wiki-makeup and removing HTML tags. But I like to use HTML-tags. Is there, from a technical point of view any difference between the folowing notations;

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== Foobar ==

<h2>Foobar</h2>

Wiki markup is preferred because a good Wikipedia article is not only useful to read, but easy to edit. We want non- compter nerds to be able to easily edit and add to topics in which they are interested. Also, I still have a long- term plan of eliminating most HTML for security reasons.

The security issue should be a separate concern. We can allow "<h2>...</h2>" as wiki markup without allowing "<span onmouseover="...">...</span>". I do agree that "==" is better, however, and we should make wiki markup look like HTML markup only for rarely used but supported features (like <strike>) and as a deprecated alternative for newbies' sakes.

I also treat Wiki markup specially in the software in a few places; for example == Foobar == will cause a page to be ranked higher in a search for "Foobar", but the equivalent HTML tag will not.

I've also suggested treating the rendering of "=" markup in HTML analogously to how we treat its rendering for numbered headers: the shortest string of '='s will always be <h2>, even if it happens to be the currently deprecated "===". But then "<h3>" could still be used to force an <h3> tag in the HTML. Although this proposal got little response and is unlikely to happen, the point is that some variation is possible, and might be desirable, for certain purposes.

-- Toby