Thread:Beboper/@comment-5952906-20130702020245/@comment-5428123-20130718045906

With the first example, the reason why the wiki doesn't process it is because the wiki can only process a select group of html tags. Probably to encourage the use of the wiki's own markup. See Help:HTML for a list of allowed html tags.

With the second example, I'm afraid I have no idea how that piece of code works, so I can't say why it doesn't work on the wiki.

In general, I don't think there's any intuitive or simple way to insert emoticons into the wiki comment boxes and pages (I could be wrong though). I do know that emoticon shortcuts are available in the wiki chat, but other than that there isn't any easy way.

If you're interested, the wiki does have some emoticons and sprites already uploaded to the servers by default for use in the chat rooms. See MediaWiki:Emoticons for a complete list. If you want to use them, just insert their respective links and the wiki should process them easily. It's not perfect, but that option exists.