[xwiki-dev] [Proposal] XWiki syntax simplification

[Anca Paula Luca]

+1

Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to change the generated HTML markup in order to eliminate redundancy.
>
> Currently, we're using too many class attributes for the generated
> markup from the wiki syntax, and we're doing this in a bad manner. For
> example:
> - p class="paragraph"
> - h2 class="heading-1"
> - strong class="strong"
> - del class="strike"
>
> The class attribute should only be used with semantics in mind, and
> saying that all p-s are paragraphs, and all strong-s are strong, this
> adds no semantics whatsoever, but does increase the size of the
> transfered files (and the page loading time), the rendering time, the
> cache size and the size and complexity of the CSS files.
>
> We might have to rewrite some CSS rules, as a downside, but I think it
> is for the good. And it will also break some badly designed skins.
>
> Sergiu
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