From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T16:44:16+09:00
Subject: Re: for user submitted content on website, use textile or html?

> what's the main reason people use another markup language for user
> posted content on website?

In order to make their users' lives miserable, I believe :-(

I've lost track of how many different markups I've had to learn: BBcode,
Twiki, rdoc, markdown, whatever Rubygarden uses, MoinMoin, Trac, pod,
probably others. All have different ways of expressing the most basic
things, like a hyperlink or a level 1 heading. When I come across a website
which uses a different one again, like Textile, I cringe.

BBcode even uses [b]..[/b], presumably only to be different to <b>..</b>

Hmph!

Brian.