How can we get the Fluther text styling sytax adopted by the W3 consortium?

I would lurve to have be able to use the syntax on other sites as well as in chat!

sigh HTML is standard and unambiguous, which is why it’s HTML…

Textile Markup is a standard, but is not widely adopted.

Kudos to the FlutherBrains for adopting it, however. Personally, I find the link styling a little awkward, but my fishbrain just automatically does <a> tags without my thinking about it.

@Dog I was afraid my question would be interpreted as that lol

@patg7590 I played with the syntax but I really was serious. This is the first site I have ever used it on and I love it. When in the chat room I sometimes use it without thinking.

@grumpyfish I hear you about that—but my fear is that you’d have a slew of unclosed <a>‘s—not to mention that we sanitize everything heavily for safety, so allowing no tags is a tad easier than one.

@patg7590 If you use gchat via gmail, you’ll have the same styling options. Ish.

I sometimes don’t like Fluther text styling because I actually want to surround a word with asterisks without bolding it (it seems to me they have different meanings). Example:

* sneezes*

sneezes

The former seems like I’m doing the action, the latter seems to be emphasizing the word.

Another problem seems to be making links; I figured them out rather quickly, but I’ve seen threads here that went on forever with people trying to explain it and other people still not getting it.

I supposed I’d be more comfortable with standard HTML tags or even BBCode, but these are minor nitpicks.

I agree witn @drdoombot

I might be on the wrong track but ideas like W3 make me slightly nervous. Orginazation of the net makes me think about increasing control of it, especially from government.

Is it just me?

@proXXi its better than the goons that work at MS making the rules. With the release of IE8 they finally realized they can’t strong-arm the world into their idea of web standards anymore.

Got it and agreed @patg7590. Anything that limits Microsoft’s monolpoly of mediocrity is good IMO.

Microsoft, the General Motors of computing.

@proXXi W3C is not the government.

Oh, and HTML Purifier FTW. But Fluther’s Python…

@Vincentt, no W3 is not the government but I submit that the more the internets are in one entities ‘hands’, the easier it will be for government to scoop up.

W3 may not be part my hypothetical problem, its just a thought, but I’m certain the state wants as much control of the web as it can get, its what the government does.

Because its the last frontier of free speech and tax free it is growing government’s biggest enemy.

I submit that the internet is the free citizens greatest ally against a tyrannical state, anything that keeps it that way is good IMO.

@proXXi Which “the government”, which “the state”? It’s not so much a particular government’s involvement with the internet I fear, but more a particular government’s influence in other countries’ business in general.