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: I've just found that the "fail" on unsupported languages indeed fails, i.e. doesn't work correctly. See e.g. [[http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Apply_a_callback_to_an_Array#E]]. Looking at the generated HTML, you obviously inserted <code> tags instead of <pre> tags. --[[User:Ce|Ce]] 16:57, 30 January 2009 (UTC) |
: I've just found that the "fail" on unsupported languages indeed fails, i.e. doesn't work correctly. See e.g. [[http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Apply_a_callback_to_an_Array#E]]. Looking at the generated HTML, you obviously inserted <code> tags instead of <pre> tags. --[[User:Ce|Ce]] 16:57, 30 January 2009 (UTC) |
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===Inconsistent content model=== |
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There's a problem with this fallback: if the language is recognized, then the content is treated literally (except for </lang>, of course), but if it is unrecognized, then it is treated as HTML. The following two examples are of <lang foo>abc <fnord> def</lang> and <lang c>abc <fnord> def</lang>: |
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<lang foo>abc <fnord> def</lang> |
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<lang c>abc <fnord> def</lang> |
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This difference means that code examples containing < or & will stop displaying correctly if the specified language becomes supported. |
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I would prefer that everything be treated as HTML (as <pre>, indenting, and the current unsupported-language behavior do) so that it's possible to insert markup in examples (e.g. hyperlinks in comments), </lang> is not a magic string impossible to include, and for consistency with most of the rest of HTML. |
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On the other hand, treating the content literally does have the advantage of making it easier to paste in examples containing <s. |
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--[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 00:36, 9 February 2009 (UTC) |
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== Code tag special behaviour == |
== Code tag special behaviour == |
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