Off topic, HTML wanted

This is off topic, but wouldn't these forums be helped if we could actually use HTML? I'd rather click a link than copy/paste. And if you wanted to discuss, for example, this mapping:
^X - cut
^C - copy
^V - pastewouldn't that be nicer as an unordered list, or a table?
It's been 17 years since Berners-Lee invented HTML. At Sun, the network is the computer. I think we should ask Sun, politely, of course, if they would think about bringing these fora right into the twenty-first century.

warnerja:
Thanks. Didn't know that. Where did you find that?
Herko_ter_Horst::
I can see lots of reasons to avoid javascript, but "the users might screw it up" is no reason to avoid HTML. I took a look at BBCode and I really don't like the idea of "near HTML" with everything slightly different from the HTML that I know. And I love tables, too, which aren't in BBCode.
Ceci:
Never? In my website I discuss drawing a button's borders. To show where the lines begin and end I drew a picture. I'd love to say
<img src=" http://www.martinrinehart.com/graphics/borders.gif">
right here. But I can't, so you have to select, copy, new page, paste and go.
If you take a look I think you'll agree that the picture explains the issues better than a whole lot of words. (Actually, the picture is a nicer version of a pencil sketch I made while I was coding.)

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