Re^4: [Home Work]: Using (subset of) HTML as publishing language at PerlMonks: bug or feature?

Thank you, fellow hardburn. This is a nice point of view. But, as stated at the begining of the thread, I'm interested on the user's point of view, not in the application PoV.

So the question stands. What you think is easy to learn and use, under the user's perspective?

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Re^5: [Home Work]: Using (subset of) HTML as publishing language at PerlMonks: bug or feature? by hardburn (Abbot) on Jun 21, 2004 at 15:05 UTC
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. ---- send money to your kernel via the boot loader.. This and more wisdom available from Markov Hardburn.	[reply]

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Re^5: [Home Work]: Using (subset of) HTML as publishing language at PerlMonks: bug or feature?
by hardburn (Abbot) on Jun 21, 2004 at 15:05 UTC

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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