Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25602414-20130525143844/@comment-2200849-20130526113312

Cead, it makes a lot of sense. As ToaMeiko outlined, anchors and iframes can have a lot of security implications, not to mention the event attributes on elements that could be used for loading malicious scripts. And MediaWiki is constantly being updated with harmless elements, such as HTML 5 &lt;time&gt;, added in the current development version 1.22.