On 12 May 2010 13:33, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex Brollo wrote:

>> This question gives me the opportunity for a question to experts about
>> server load. Is really so harder for the server to manage html tags like
>> <b>, </b>, <i>,</i> instead of usual wiki markup ''', ''? The former have a
>> great advantage since they are "well-formed tags" (even if they are
>> "deprecated html tags"), while wiki markup is not at all; this would make
>> much simpler to manage them by some bot scripts.
>
> You can use <b> and <i> in the wiki. In fact '' and ''' translate into
> <b> and <i>.

Which reminds me, why doesn't it translates into <strong> and <em> or
better yet, <span style="font-weight: bold"> and <span
style="font-style: italic;"> ?

It could still accept <b> and <i>, but translate them into correct HTML tags.

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