Forum:HtmlTidy- timeframe?

Should technically oriented contributors be thinking along the lines that htmlTidy will not show up for the forseeable future (>3 years)? Personally I have a lot of other pressing tasks and don't especially relish the thought of porting a bunch of arcane WP templates to wikitext. ~  Ph l o x  16:57, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey- it's been three days- I just need an estimate. I am not advocating one side or the other.  I can imagine some issues that might make good arguments against incorporating it soon/at all.  If you guys are deadlocked/ don't know when/ whatever reason it there is no known date, then just respond "not for the forseeable future."  It may change tomorrow but if you can't forsee it, you can't forsee it.
 * I just need to know what your best guess is. If wrong and I waste my time porting a half dozen wp templates that go into the trash in 6 months when htmltidy is installed then I may grumble for a while (porting these arcane templates is way way not fun), but I won't hold it against you.  You folks are swell.
 * Motivation (skip if you already know):There are a lot of wikis that have run into this- I just ported infobox philosopher so that their article on c:christianity:Thomas Aquinas had a functioning sidebar and ported navbox/core so that psychology wikia could use collapsing navboxes. History, Literature, Genealogy, Christianity, Psych wikia- they are all trying to deepen the WP articles for their particular domains, but can't leverage that content if there are these nasty incompatibilities.  Just peruse the navbox/core code.  This is not a template that civilians can be expected to easily fix.
 * Where to put the "How to Port" article: By the way, a lot of the admins of these wikia don't understand why stuff doesn't look the same, and I was thinking I'd write an article covering the bases (incompatible css/js, htmltidy absence) and how to fix (nasty details about how to convert div sections, what wikitext to use for certain cases of th, tr, td codes- tricks to get around bugs/features of wikitext to get the same result as the wp template. Where is the best place for such an article?  ~  Ph l o x   17:12, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * ^_^ You can write a page in the Help: namespace here on central. I for one never want to see HTML Tidy enabled on Wikia. HTML Tables aren't supposed to be usable within ParserFunctions. It's bad enough that Wikipedia is making itself incompatible with standard wiki, but I don't want to see Wikia screwing up in the same way. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Oct 17, 2007 @ 19:17 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks, and btw that is an excellent rationale. Let's do this the right way.  ~  Ph l o x   19:25, 17 October 2007 (UTC)