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in thread Wiki-Style syntax for posting

Because it sucks. BBCode was acceptable eight years ago because we just had nothing better. Frankly it's every bit as stupid and unintuitive to type as HTML, only with a fraction of the functionality.

Markdown exists and has a huge installed userbase, most of the users not even realising it. The content of tye's ordered list above is a shining example.

Wikicreole exists and has the clout of a sorta-standards process and comes with rationale and code and tests.

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Re^3: Wiki-Style syntax for posting
by jdporter (Paladin) on Oct 15, 2008 at 16:17 UTC
    I'm not disagreeing with your point, but:
    The content of tye's ordered list above is a shining example.

    Huh? Looks like plain ol' html to me. And afaik, perlmonks supports no kind of markdown; the only shortcuts are in making links, and the <code> tag.

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      The content of my ordered list. Not the formatting of my ordered list. Those two items are shared by many wiki formatting schemes (including the two mentioned) and by POD.

      Note that I see a worthwhile "win" in supporting those two points. I don't currently see a worthwhile "win" in supporting any one of the many, often quite similar schemes for avoiding typing things like <em> and doing links more verbosely and slightly differently than PerlMonks already does them.

      But, no, I really don't see a "win" in replacing <b> with the equally-verbose [b] especially since [b] already means something at PerlMonks.

      - tye        

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        But, no, I really don't see a "win" in replacing <b> with the equally-verbose [b] especially since [b] already means something at PerlMonks.
        on a us-english layout, you don't need the shift key =)

        a big win I see is: much less badly formatted posts. many users don't seem to recognize that they have to add html-paragraph tags instead of just adding a blank line.

        I'm not saying perlmonks should use bbcode; I see the conflicts with current markup, I'm only saying there are advantages over pseudo-html.

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        Content at one scale is formatting at another scale.

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Re^3: Wiki-Style syntax for posting
by tinita (Parson) on Oct 15, 2008 at 16:57 UTC
    Because it sucks.
    well, at least you usually have paragraphs automatically. not like here where you have to add paragraph-html tags. and it's better than HTML because you don't need all the HTML functionality and people usually don't know HTML. *and* the markup used here is no HTML, only a kind of subset with additional tags. so at least compared to the current markup used here I think bbcode is better.
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      bbcode was created by programmers who didn't know how to parse/filter/sanitize html, its not better in any way or form
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