Fellows,
This is home work. I'm analising the Poetry section of the Monastery under various usability concepts exposed by the Web Applications Design teacher at my graduation course and needed to listen what you think about using a subset of HTML as our publishing language: is this a feature? Is this a Bad Thing TM? And, most important of your own opinion about this being a feature or a bug, why do you see using a subset of HTML for publishing this way?
My own view is: this is a Good ThingTM. Our public (perl programmers, coders, lovers and fanatics) feels this like a natural language and just don't care if he/she is writting plain english or using the HTML subset. Given the technical level of great part of our posters, this is a feature: we can format and publish nodes in a simple, intuitive and fast way, without adding lots of complex editor-emulation code to PerlMonks engine.
I would love to read your own feelings and opinions on this matter. Thank you very much for your wisdom and insight about this subject.