[Wikipedia-l] Table markup

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:58:19PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:43, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:32:58PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 18:49, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > > > .... We already had a bug
> > > > where ;/: and : for namespaces conflicted (and btw., is it fixed ?).
> > > 
> > > Which bug is that?
> > 
> > This one - http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_bug (still there)
> 
> Blecch! Is there any reason not to remove the single-line ;: directory
> list syntax?
> 
> For the uninitiated: a line like this:
> 
> ; foo : bar
> 
> would produce code something like:
> 
> <dl>
> <dt>foo</dt>
> <dd>bar</dd>
> </dl>
> 
> (but uglier, because our parser produces ugly code) which renders
> something like:
> 
> foo
>       bar
> 
> Currently this triggers on :s in URLs and wikilinks as well as plain
> text, which is unexpected.
> 
> Requiring the : portion to be a second line would prevent this from
> being an issue.

I'm for.
And similar problems may occur with | and that table markup.