[Mediawiki-l] A tag

[Brion Vibber]

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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