[pmwiki-users] Converting WikiStyle shortcuts to CSS classes

[Joachim Durchholz]

Russell Bailey wrote:

> I think the most sensible way to get around this is to transform 
> WikiStyles into the thing they act like-  CSS classes.  I'm figuring 
> that,  at the end of markup generation,  I'd transform the contents of 
> $WikiStyles to classes and store them in $HTMLStylesFmt['wikistyles'].
> 
> I have a few questions:
> 
> * Is there a reason not to do this?  Previously,  Pm has said there 
> wasn't,  but I want to make sure nobody's run into one.

I'm not sure about the following scenario:

User A has a scripting-disabled browser and saves a page with a wikistyle.

User B has scripting on, edits the page, and the styles get saved as CSS 
classes.

User A later revisits the page, and doesn't understand the CSS markup he 
now finds in the page.

This kind of scenario applies to all kinds of wikitext munging that you 
may do. OTOH you may already be handling this gracefully - I haven't 
tried the recipe yet.
In general, if I were to set up a wiki with a WYSIWYG editor, I'd drop 
any special wiki syntax and to everything in HTML. It's far simpler to 
explain that way - and those who can't or don't want to write HTML can 
switch on scripting and use the HTML editor. YMMV.


I can't comment on the other questions.

Regards,
Jo