Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com writes:
HTML fails to meet at least some of those criteria (notably ease of editing).
As often, I disagree. It would be much better to go for a subset of HTML "tags" plus shortcuts for [[links]]. Basically, H1-Hx, simple lists, CODE, EM, B, I, P, BLOCKQOUTE, and PRE would do the trick. Plus tables, where necessary. Plus BR, maybe.
Things like ==...==, ''...'' and the list codes in combination with the line ending restrictions are not that easy to learn. And don't for get the indentations tricks. Once the user gets these cryptic control code, he must learn to use them properly! And the nice thing about wikis is, their is more than one, thus you are force to get used to more than one wiki format ;-)
I'm pretty sure, HTML 2 (plus simple table tags) are not difficult _and_ more rubust. TEI-like tag names would even be better :)