Liangent schrieb: > On 8/11/10, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: >> Or keep the old parser around to deal with old revisions. Revisions that >> work >> with the new parser can be flagged as such. > > This made me think of Quirks mode in browsers. > > We can make the new parser (and standardized wikitext syntax) more > strict by treating many edge cases as errors, and if the new parser > detected any error when parsing, use the old parser instead.
There are no errors. This is an axiom of wiki markup: any text is valid wiki text. It may not look like what you though it would, but there will be no "syntax error" messages, ever. We *could* however issue warnings. That could actually be helpful. Perhaps in the form of special css classes / hidden markers, that can be made visible with some JS gadget. Maybe they should even be visible per default to logged in users. -- daniel _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
