Thanks for the explanation. My application interfaces MediaWiki and
various content management systems using the MediaWIki API. Put
simply, it adds a textarea to a CMS where users can edit a specific
MediaWiki page. I'm looking for some editing tool that facilitates the
authoring of wiki markup in that textarea. Do you think VisualEditor,
properly configured, will be able to do this? Are there any other
options?
Jim
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
VisualEditor is designed for MediaWiki, but
technically is still fairly
stand-alone. The idea of using it outside of MediaWiki seems to glaze over
the back end systems that are going to be required to edit actual pages.
VisualEditor is the front-end, it does not parse Wikitext, it reads in and
emits out annotated HTML. It depends on Parsoid to convert from Wikitext to
annotated HTML and back again after editing. If you wanted to use
VisualEditor to edit arbitrary HTML, that should work (soon) with some
restrictions because our concept of annotated HTML has certain limitations
including only supporting certain types of elements and not supporting all
conceivable HTML-isms.
I would love to see our work on VE be used elsewhere, but it's not a central
goal at this time to make it generic enough for general HTML editing.
- Trevor
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Jim Safley <jimsafley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Will I be able to implement the Visual Editor outside MediaWiki? For
instance, could I install it as a JavaScript library in a separate
application?
I notice that the original edit toolbar and the toolbar that comes
with the WikiEditor extension are coupled so tightly to MediWiki that
it's near impossible to integrate them into a separate application.
(If I'm wrong, please educate me.) I wonder if the same will apply to
the rich-text editor.
Thanks,
Jim
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