Your average Perl Monk will have some HTML-foo, so it makes sense to use HTML from that perspective. My personal dream is that one day we'll be able to post with POD. However, this site specifically targets programmers.

If you're targetting less techincally-inclined users, you probably want to stay away from HTML. Some UBB-based boards have JavaScript buttons that will insert the UBB needed for formatting (bold, italic, links, etc.). More DWIMery would be involved (such as finding paragraph breaks). You could ignore the UBB stuff and use simple ASCII markups (*bold*, /italic/, _underline_, etc.); I believe http://kuro5hin.org has a posting mode like that.

There's a lot of possibilities for usability, but few of them require knowing HTML.

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In reply to Re^5: [Home Work]: Using (subset of) HTML as publishing language at PerlMonks: bug or feature? by hardburn
in thread [Home Work]: Using (subset of) HTML as publishing language at PerlMonks: bug or feature? by monsieur_champs

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
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  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
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    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
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  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.