Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Louie 20 April 2011 05:56PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 April 2011 12:02:51AM 29 points [-]

In top-level posts, automatically replace "div" tags (which screw up the rest of the HTML) with "p", strip out all the font-specification crap that Microsoft Word and similar apps try to stuff in (the original font is good enough for everyone), and in general auto-simplify the HTML. This will save editors some work.

Comment author: wedrifid 21 April 2011 11:00:55PM 3 points [-]

I request that we don't have a 'half HTML' markup language. If it is html that doesn't allow font formatting or layout handling then it basically is just not HTML and shouldn't pretend to be.

A far better alternative is to make the posts use full markdown syntax and a WYSIWYG editor.