On 2005-12-17, David J Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if it doesn't work with the world's most popular Web browser, as > far as I am concerned it needs fixing so that it does.
Providing detailed error information (i.e. more than just "Page error") will help us address this issue. > Why they have to invent yet another mark-up language as well also > beats me. We have HTML thanks very much - that's what I use and I'm > sticking with it for now. (from: http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/03/19/in_defense_of_wiki_markup) | Wiki markup solves a set of problems that are important for Wikis to | solve: | | 1. Pages are editable solely in the web browser, not requiring any | additional software to be installed or called up for editing. | | 2. The page in the text area gives visual clues as to what the | finished page will look like: bullet-points look like bullet-points, | and the various kinds of in-line emphasis look like the sort of thing | we've been using in email for years. | | 3. The markup is simple enough that it can be described very quickly. | The important parts of Confluences markup can be described succinctly | in a side-bar on the edit page. | | 4. The Wiki doesn't have to worry about defending itself against the | latest Cross-Site Scripting technique or whatever markup crashes | Internet Explorer today. <snip> | Sure, you end up with something thats significantly less powerful than | HTML. This is a feature. A wiki page isn't a place for complicated | markup, it's for writing stuff down. The more power you put in the markup | language, the more people are going to be wanking around with the | precise arrangement of angle-brackets that will make their paragraphs | step from left-to-right in pixel-perfect harmony in lieu of saying | something. > This Wiki implementation, on my first visit as a potential author, seems > foreign and unfriendly, although the basic idea is one I like. Wikis all work in pretty much the same way, although the mark-up tends to be implementation-specific. -- Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NTP Public Services Project - http://ntp.isc.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
