On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:54 AM, apri a.vd.wiel <a.vd.w...@apri.nl> wrote: > I see there is no formating (bold and italic) in the message. But for > this case my conclusion is: MW formatting is (also) not correct. > The markup spec says: Note that improper nesting of bold and italics > is currently permitted. > Which means that the formatting can't be correct in all cases. The > markup spec must be more strict.
There is no spec. It's "whatever Parser.php does". The current behavior cannot be easily changed to simplify the markup for third parties, because that would break some unknown percentage of the literally billions of old revisions that have accumulated in the last seven years across countless thousands of MediaWiki installations. Wikimedia alone is likely somewhere over a billion revisions. So you probably have to reimplement Parser.php more or less line-by-line in your language of choice if you want it to work reliably. That's why there's not already an official WYSIWYG editor packaged by default. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
