Pierre Abbat wrote:
Some days ago, I added a couple of empty links on my
user page. They showed,
so I enclosed them in <nowiki> so that they would be passed through as HTML
and be invisible. I just checked and they are visible. Was something changed?
<Nowiki> no longer passes through arbitrary HTML. Think Javascript...
Java... ActiveX... (shudder!)
Since HTML is for our purposes a subset of wikicode, it ought not to be
allowed as ''code'' inside a <nowiki>...</nowiki> block.
Hence, the <
and > characters inside such a block are passed through as the character
entities < and > so that the ''text'' is not interpreted by
your
browser as HTML ''code''.
Unless, of course, you have a better idea.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)