Currently it has to be in comments. Since comments and articles have entirely different markup and formatting systems (comments use Markdown, articles use constrained HTML), supporting them in both places at once is nontrivial.
But the Markdown is converted to HTML in the end… As a workaround: Could I make a poll as a comment, copy the HTML of a non-voted-upon version of the comment, and insert it into the raw HTML of an article? And then delete the original comment?
There’s a bit more to it than HTML, though—the submission and results display use some Javascript. You might be able to hack an alternative without Javascript, but hitting “submit” would take you to a broken page, rather than replacing the poll with the results in-place.
Currently it has to be in comments. Since comments and articles have entirely different markup and formatting systems (comments use Markdown, articles use constrained HTML), supporting them in both places at once is nontrivial.
But the Markdown is converted to HTML in the end… As a workaround: Could I make a poll as a comment, copy the HTML of a non-voted-upon version of the comment, and insert it into the raw HTML of an article? And then delete the original comment?
There’s a bit more to it than HTML, though—the submission and results display use some Javascript. You might be able to hack an alternative without Javascript, but hitting “submit” would take you to a broken page, rather than replacing the poll with the results in-place.
Oh. Too bad then.