[Wikipedia-l] Re:

Tue Apr 27 14:56:38 UTC 2004

I wish you the best of luck in your campaign. I've asked for tags 
 TWICE before and got shot down twice with the explanation that 
tags make the wikitext harder to read (as though <div> tags were somehow 
better) and that there should be some universal styles for styling 
particular things, with wikiformatting tags to go along with them. I 
hope you can be more convincing than I was. Of course, said universal 
styles never got made and we go on, unable to make tags, and with 
no real substitute other than the long-deprecated tag and its 
friends. Enabling them requires changing exactly one line of code.

Sigh.

- David

Peter Gervai wrote:
> hello,
> 
> from time to time I would like to use <span> tag for inline element
> styling, but it's not supported, so I have to use <div> and dirty tricks to
> get it done, but it's not the same: since DIV is not an inherent inline
> element, it's very hard to use it for blending something into the normal
> text flow (like math for example, see my hack on meta/mediawiki user
> guide/math using div instead of span).
> 
> maybe i'm wrong and there shouldn't be such styling on wikipedia pages
> (people against tags would say "it makes wikitext harder to read for nontech
> people"), so please share your opinion. I would like to use span, and would
> like to have it enabled in mediawiki pages. As far as I know it does not
> present cross-scripting or other vulnerabilities (I didn't explore this topic
> too deep though).
> 
> if nobody objects or convinces me that I'm on the road to hell I'll try to
> convince brion (which is probably the hardest part :)).
> 
> thanks,
> peter

[Wikipedia-l] Re: <span>