Re: Eu website
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Aug 27, 2009
- 1938 views
You mean delete this?
Hm. I know things like that have happened and it's no reason not to use Creole! Just because it has 1 bug does not mean it's a bad product. I think you are totally missing the point of Creole and the point of a wiki. A wiki is meant to be editable by all people fast. Please read what a Wiki is.
Now, the current bug with Creole (and the forum) is that it does not fully validate the input. So, it allows the mis-use of it's syntax. For instance, if you enter {{{ with out an ending }}}, it'll mess up, but you know what? If we allowed HTML, if you entered <div> and forgot a </div> then you would wind up with the *exact* thing your screen shot it showing!
Further, the purpose of a wiki is not precision publishing, it's quick publishing. Further, the purpose of creole is to publish into many formats. We can take a creole file and publish into HTML, Text, PDF, OpenOffice, LaTeX, LOut, Troff, Groff or one of a hundred different formats all from one source.
Further, creole creates a consistent web site. If you allow 5 people to create HTML, they will all do it differently. One person will do: <div style="font-size: 20pt">Section Header</div>. Another will do <h1>Section Header</h1>, another will do <p><strong>Section Header</strong></p>. Creole solves all of those problems. How? Everyone does == Section Header and creole controls the output.
Creole is the *proper* thing to do, not HTML. A Wiki is the proper thing to do for main Euphoria content, not raw HTML. I do not forsee us ever allowing normal HTML, nor a normal HTML page. Creole will only get better. Allowing the use of HTML will only get worse as more people edit it. Creole is the right thing to do.
Jeremy
