On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
> Wiki markup, on the other hand, is primarily
designed to be easy to
> create and easy to read. Concerns such as the ease of parser design and
> avoiding ambiguity are decidedly secondary.
I agree with this completely. Now, obviously we
should be very
careful about falling into any "reinventing the wheel" syndromes, or
any "not invented here" syndromes, etc. But wiki markup serves a very
different function from HTML or XML.
To me, wiki markup is just another editor in front of the real content. I
expect to see a wysiwyg editor one day as well, and I expect to see the
contents stored in XML for ease of access and because databases will offer us
more features that way.
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Daniel Mikkelsen
Copyleft Software AS