2009/9/24 Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov
<questpc(a)rambler.ru> wrote:
> So it would be menu and icon-driven editing, where
the hands should move
> from keyboard to mouse and vice versa, like MS Word. Not very handy for
> programmers and people who prefer to do most of tasks in command line.
Programmers rank far, far below normal people when it
comes to
usability prioritization.
Indeed, as do robot editors. This is part of the "no way, not even
with logic twisting, is the impenetrability of wikitext a feature."
As far as I'm concerned, a situation in which
WYSIWYG is the only
supported editing method would be far superior to the current
situation. If we could allow power users to edit manually, that would
be a nice bonus. Note that even if we use a format like XML that's a
pain to manually edit, programmers can write up their own front-ends
if they like -- they're programmers, after all! And also note that as
with most WYSIWYG editors, there would presumably be a slew of
keyboard shortcuts for power users to memorize if they didn't want to
use the mouse.
Realistically, Tim has already stated we're not throwing out wikitext
because of the huge body of text already in it. WYSIWYG editing is
getting there bit by bit - FCKeditor would be fine on a fresh wiki
without the unspeakable atrocities inventive geeks have perpetrated
upon wikitext on en:wp and should continue to get better at dealing
with more obtusities.
- d.