[Wikipedia-l] Re: <span>

Tue Apr 27 17:51:23 UTC 2004

But we want to get *away* from HTML towards wiki markup. It is better to 
write a few dozen lines of code and have some nice (and 
XHTML-unbreakable!) wiki markup, than have <span> all over the 'pedia - 
we'll never get it out again! Just look at the table markup - we have a 
working wikitable markup, and yet <table>s are still all over the place.

Magnus

David Friedland wrote:
> I wish you the best of luck in your campaign. I've asked for <span> tags 
>  TWICE before and got shot down twice with the explanation that <span> 
> 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 <span> tags, and with 
> no real substitute other than the long-deprecated <font> 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
> 
> 
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