Since three of the seven Monastary FAQ questions deal with HTML, you might say that if it's not assumed knowledge, it is at least very useful. I'm not talking about in-depth knowledge of HTML, but enough to format your posts.

As further evidence for my point that perlmonks wouldn't work for other languages, I like to suggest that those of us who aren't using perl for HTML tasks are probably using it for system administration. Those users therefore have the same understanding of how to manage a community of users as a webmaster does.

I'd also like to bring up this contentious point: would you use perlmonks if it wasn't written in perl? Would a python, java or PHP developer want to use a website that was written in perl? (Naturally a SQL developer wouldn't mind, since perlmonks site uses mySQL too :)

And finally, Would you even read this sentence if I didn't know how to change the font tags?? The HTML savvy users have an advantage on this site.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Computer Monks by Boldra
in thread SQuirreL Monks by Masem

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


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