Interesting. I'm using Firefox - currently 1.5.0.6 and it behaves as I described and expected.

Subsequent to posting it occured to me I could test things such as spoiler tags in my private pad where I independently discovered the results ikegami provided (thought I'd leave my comment stand for others to have the pleasure of correcting though :).

I'm strongly inclined to follow ikegami and ww's suggestion that formating be allowed across PM special block markup (code, readmore and spoiler tags), and that it should otherwise be coerced to correctly nested elements without non-block level elements spanning block level elements.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^2: Ideas for PerlMonks Markup support in an editor by GrandFather
in thread Ideas for PerlMonks Markup support in an editor by GrandFather

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