Re: Two Common Formatting Mistakes on the Forum
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Nov 08, 2010
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I agree that it's consistent among the different Euphoria pages - although each page has its own purpose - but I disagree that it's easier.
I find BBCode to be far easier because it is consistent among hundreds of forums and not some thing which seems to me to be unique to the Euphoria websites.
In 20+ years of BBSes and Internet forums, this is the only place I've ever seen "creole".
I can see using creole for the wiki or for documentation for which layout and structure are far more important than in a forum. But forum posts rarely need that kind of structure and layout to them. They need code, emphasis, and strong. And maybe sometimes a table. And people who only spend a little bit of time on any one forum don't necessarily want to learn a wholly different means of expressing that.
Not that I'm a hater. Creole is what it is. It's like preferring Mac when everyone else does PC. Don't mean nothin'. Just expressing my opinion.
Edit: See, I can't use double dash without it interpreting it as strikeout. What's up with THAT???
+5 !
I fully agree with everything you say here. However, adding BBCode support means writing a parser for it. (The easiest way to do this would be to write a BBCode-to-Creole converter that also knew how to escape text properly in Creole. Otherwise, there's the additional headaches of writing a converter-to-html for it, and dealing with different post formats in the database, and dealing with someone quoting a Creole post from BBCode or vice versa.)
We used Creole because it was already available and worked very well on euwiki (IIRC it predates not only euweb but even forum.ex). No BBCode parser existed back then, and none exists now. Until someone writes one, this is not remotely possible.
