Liangent schrieb:
On 8/11/10, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
Or keep the old parser around to deal with old revisions. Revisions that work with the new parser can be flagged as such.
This made me think of Quirks mode in browsers.
We can make the new parser (and standardized wikitext syntax) more strict by treating many edge cases as errors, and if the new parser detected any error when parsing, use the old parser instead.
There are no errors. This is an axiom of wiki markup: any text is valid wiki text. It may not look like what you though it would, but there will be no "syntax error" messages, ever.
We *could* however issue warnings. That could actually be helpful. Perhaps in the form of special css classes / hidden markers, that can be made visible with some JS gadget. Maybe they should even be visible per default to logged in users.
-- daniel