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Having said that, HTML is an abstraction. PerlMonks tags are an abstraction of an abstraction. While I have found the [] tags particularly beneficial for intrasite links, I find the proposed

tags akin to bbcode, namely a further abstraction. The point being that if one is to learn an abstraction, they may as well learn a productive one. HTML is universal; the proposed tags are not.

You seem to overlook the fact that with special tags we can all kinds of server side special processing of the contents of the special tags. Doing so with attributes would be much much more difficult, to the point that in my mind it would be impossible. For instance how would you simulate the behaviour of the default "link-and-omit" with attributes and without JS?

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