Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20160710155618/@comment-1738746-20160714092651

Shockstorm wrote: Agree, the image uploaders are very helpful.

Btw, I asked wikia staff about vs and (was wondering about that for a different wiki I edit). Here's their response:

"I don't believe it really matters, and I think it's doubtful that there will ever be a situation in which it makes a difference. The way MediaWiki works, it normalises both to output as  .

The classic rich text editor does convert them to in article wikitext, but it's a minor change, and we're likely to retire that old visual editor at some point."

Doesn't really matter much now since we changed almost everything to on this wiki, but some folks might find that helpful in the future or on different wikis. Whoever answered this to you failed to address the internet and browsers as a whole. While it may make no different to Wikia or Mediawiki in general, browsers are moving towards HTML5 now, which means moving from to . While HTML5 isn't strict like XHTML, being strict is still encouraged in the coding communities in order to avoid blunders, especially if you don't know what you're doing. Also, some non-common-use browsers may render the first tag incorrectly due to following strict XHTML instead of HTML4/5.

As I said when all of this began, it's been mostly a storm in a tea cup. I originally brought it up because for whatever reason, it dawned on Atvelonis to go through all the articles changing to to "save on bytes" and I simply pointed out that this was backwards due to reasons listed above i.e. it's better to not do anything than change them in that direction. This then turned into a big thing of getting all of them changed across the site, and frankly I was tired of butting my nose in it then. As said before, it's not a big deal; all I was advising was that people should not be changing to. Actually, better advice to give is "if you don't know what it does, don't touch it!" :)