If we want to do away with Tidy, we will have to make all editors perfect html authors, or we risk them damaging pages so much that they potentially can't access the edit button anymore. As far as i'm concerned, this is what Tidy does primarily. Isolate errors in the content in such a way that it cannot influence the rest of the interface of the website. And yes I do regularly see such problem in MediaWiki instances that do not run Tidy.
Rule one of security. Always have multiple layers of defense. Yes we should reduce the amount of problems and make them more visible, but that doesn't mean we don't still need a correctional method as a fallback. DJ On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:04 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 August 2015 at 04:15, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > > Brian Wolff wrote: > > >>I dont know about that. Viz editor is targeting ordinary tasks. Its the > >>complex things that mess stuff up. > > > In most contexts, solving the ordinary/common cases is a pretty big win. > > > Or when it turns a complex task into a simple one, e.g. table editing > (one click to remove a column). > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
