22,523
edits
FamilySearch Wiki:FAQ/Technical: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 21: | Line 21: | ||
:The short answer is: for simplicity and security. | :The short answer is: for simplicity and security. | ||
:And now the longer answer. FamilySearch Wiki, and | :And now the longer answer. FamilySearch Wiki, and wikis in general, are meant to be edited on the fly. HTML is not easy to use when you simply want to write an article. Creating links gives us a particularly dramatic example. To link to the HTML article using HTML, one would have to type | ||
::<nowiki><a href="HTML">HTML</a></nowiki> | ::<nowiki><a href="HTML">HTML</a></nowiki> | ||
| Line 29: | Line 29: | ||
::<nowiki>[[HTML]]</nowiki> | ::<nowiki>[[HTML]]</nowiki> | ||
:Then there's security. Different web browsers have bugs that can be exploited via HTML. Malicious users could also do things like Javascript popup windows or page redirects if they had full HTML ability on | :Then there's security. Different web browsers have bugs that can be exploited via HTML. Malicious users could also do things like Javascript popup windows or page redirects if they had full HTML ability on the wiki. Several "experimental" sites that allowed full-HTML editing have suffered such attacks, including a couple of other wikis that allowed arbitrary HTML. | ||
== So we can't use ''any'' HTML? == | == So we can't use ''any'' HTML? == | ||