On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Risker asks: > > Of course those <nowiki> tags weren't added by the editors, VE doesn't > let you do that directly. What I think Robert was talking about > (thanks for that analysis, BTW!) is edits where the user typed > something like "[[Foo]]" into the editor, and Parsoid, in order to > achieve a truthful rendering of "[[Foo]]", wraps it in <nowiki> tags. > That's a case of "we did what the user asked us to do, although the > user probably didn't mean that". ... > These kinds of > technically-correct-but-probably-not-what-you-wanted issues are a bit > tricky. They're on our list of things to deal with though. FWIW, the WYSIWYG editor for the Socialtext wiki handles these cases well, and has since at least 2007 or so. I think Wikia is (or was) using some derivative of this "Wikiwyg" editor. Regardless, it might be a useful oracle for VE behavior. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
