Andreas Jonsson wrote:
But what you are describing is not the same behavior as 1). MediaWiki processes html and wikitext tables separately, and to mee it seems highly unintentional that the inner tokens can be used interchangeably and this only happens if both types of tables are nested with each other. But you are here proposing yet another option, which I believe is a lot simpler to implement:
- There is only one type of table, but the tokens have aliases.
I think that it used to be the case, and was later changed to only work with its own type, but couldn't find that.