Re^2: Should we change linking so that conditional comments for IE are not destroyed?

[tye]

I was thinking of having [[ become just [ and ]] become ] (despite the minor lack of backward compat). But then you have to be very careful to not filter anything twice.

[ysth]

Sounds reasonable; there are 77+ nodes with titles starting [, but I think all of them have a ], so there's no way to link to them by name now anyway.

[tye]

The other backward compat I was thinking of was using [[] as a way to get [ to appear. But I haven't seen that used recently and I only saw it used in chatter.

But I've changed my mind and am now instead thinking of transitioning to use [[...]] for PM links.

But the first step for either of these (as well as leaving brackets untouched inside of HTML comments) is having the HTML filter code handle square brackets and I've already started that work. I've got to do the next phase of testing...