[Mediawiki-l] A tag
Brion Vibber
brion at pobox.com
Sat Jan 15 08:15:55 UTC 2005
On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:56 PM, NSK wrote:
> Why the <A> XHTML tag is not allowed in wikitext? How this decision
> was taken?
MediaWiki's formatting is derived from UseMod's, which does not include
<a> among the (optional) allowed tag subset. UseMod's formatting is
derived from the original wiki's, which does not allow any HTML.
There is already a standard wiki syntax for hyperlinking, leaving
little purpose to choosing to support an <a> tag in addition.
Supporting the <a> tag would additionally require extra code in the
HTML sanitization code to strip javascript: URLs to maintain security.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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