User blog comment:Ohmyn0/Making your wiki HTML5 compliant/@comment-5115792-20120705183021/@comment-118323-20120705201727

Our Visual editor changes what you write to wikitext (also known as 'source'). Wikitext is then changed to HTML when saved. HTML is then rendered as words and images when viewed in a web browser. All this happens in micro-seconds.


 * Note: this is a super oversimplification of the way it actually works, but you get the gist.