At 02:12 PM 2/1/2004, you wrote:
In fact, I would argue that Wikipedia policy should be
towards compliance
with standards, and <font> and <center> tags should NOT be allowed, as
they are deprecated from the HTML spec (and not permitted at all in XHTML).
I would agree with this... but I thought one of the design principles here
was to keep it simple to edit, and provide consistent rendering. All the
non-wiki html stuff is useful in the right hands, but in the wrong hands
(which is a lot of hands) it just ends up making the Wiki look goofy with
various skins applied. Nobody doing weird html markup is going to check how
it looks with everyone's style sheet...
It would be interesting if you could personalize your own style sheet
rather than pick one of the three provided, maybe there's a way to do this
already... but I don't know what it is.
The basic premise of the new XHTML type standards is that the style sheet
is king. Adding Div and Span tags with specific information in them goes
against the intent of these new standards. They support the old stuff only
for backwards compatibility (in a half sort of way).
-Kelly