Svip wrote: > On 12 May 2010 13:33, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Alex Brollo wrote: > >>> This question gives me the opportunity for a question to experts about >>> server load. Is really so harder for the server to manage html tags like >>> <b>, </b>, <i>,</i> instead of usual wiki markup ''', ''? The former have a >>> great advantage since they are "well-formed tags" (even if they are >>> "deprecated html tags"), while wiki markup is not at all; this would make >>> much simpler to manage them by some bot scripts. >> >> You can use <b> and <i> in the wiki. In fact '' and ''' translate into >> <b> and <i>. > > Which reminds me, why doesn't it translates into <strong> and <em> or > better yet, <span style="font-weight: bold"> and <span > style="font-style: italic;"> ? > > It could still accept <b> and <i>, but translate them into correct HTML tags.
Because not all '' wants to emphasize nor all ''' to make it strong. Old mediawiki did use <strong> and <em> but it was changed for the above reasons. You could use <span style="font-weight: bold">, but what's the point of that? Using <b> and <i> where what you really want is to make it bold and italic isn't deprecated. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
