On Thursday 12 August 2010 18:43:49, Paul Gupta wrote : > Just curious pmwiki-users! Why isn't this the *default* behavior?
For historical and compatibility reasons. HTML, the markup language in which web pages are displayed, outputs consecutive lines of text as being a paragraph, and browsers merge and wrap lines together on output. Moreover, at the beginning of wikis, text editing in browsers wasn't the same as today, edit forms didn't have automatic word-wrap (sometimes editing even required using an external text editor). Editing long paragraphs was difficult unless they were split in several lines. Most early wiki packages (UseMod/C2/Meatball, Mediawiki/Wikipedia, PmWiki, Dokuwiki...) still have this feature by default, and many pages of wiki text were written this way. Petko _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
