On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:42:24PM -0500, Simetrical wrote:
On 11/9/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Backwards compatibility. The main suggestion
I've seen is rewriting
the parser in such a way as to make it behave like the old one in
everything except a few unavoidable corner cases (bold italics is not
a corner case).
I would view bold italics with adjacent apostrophes as a corner case.
The behavior in that case makes very little sense and I doubt it's
being widely used.
I believe that all of these arguments about what to do and how to do it
would be *very* well served by a) defining a list of the corner
cases/pinch points and b) surveying the WMF wikis to see on how many
pages they *actually* appear.
The fundamental recurring argument seems to me to be "we can't do
that; we'll break too much stuff."
Data is not the plural of anecdote; we need some.
Anyone want to contribute on either point?
Cheers,
-- jra
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