https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40329
--- Comment #24 from TMg <[email protected]> 2012-09-27 12:02:52 UTC --- I have no idea who Strawman is. You say the align attributes need to be removed from the HTML output. I don't see why this needs to be done *now*. Because of a future spec that is not even finished and that no browser in the world is currently able to fulfill? I say the attributes don't need to be removed. They work everywhere. They will work everywhere for the next 10 years or more. I say it's stupid to "fix" something that is *not* broken. Especially if the *only* thing this "fix" does is to actually *break* something. Basically you say there is no other way than to stick to a unfinished spec no matter if it makes sense or not. Like it's a law and not a recommendation. I'm not a lawyer. I'm a coder. You say you need to remove "invalid" attributes from the output. But at the same time you are accepting the *same* invalid attributes as input? This is confusing. When I use an align attribute in my code I expect it to work according to the spec. Like it did for many years. Now you introduced your own spec where it started to *not* work in some cases. This is confusing as hell. Till last week it was *my* decision what my code did. Now *you* decide that the same code is invalid in some cases but still valid in other cases. You *dropped* a feature. Why? Where is the documentation for this? Where was the "consider changing your templates" warning a year ago? Where is the discussion were the community decided to removed this part of the WikiText feature set? Why only this part? Why not simply remove all of the invalid stuff? Why not the <center> garbage? This would be way less confusing. A lot of stuff will break but everybody would *know* why. Even people that were not involved in the discussion. And you *need* to remove all invalid stuff some day. When will this happen? In 10 years? The same time when the browsers will stop to read the align attributes? If this is true why not simply let the browsers decide if they are fine with an align attribute or not? Why do you think it's your responsibility to make this decision? It wasn't your responsibility till last week. All you did was whitelisting. The align attributes were copied to the output or not. Simple. What you are doing now is to *guess* the meaning of these attributes and to replace it with something else that may or may not have the same meaning. It's not your responsibility to change the meaning of my code. All the current hack does is to add confusion. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
