[WikiEN-l] Why we need a good WYSIWYG editor

[Thomas Dalton]

2010/1/4 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>:
> I personally detest all WYSIWYG web-based editors. They are slow and clunky
> and produce broken markup, and just get in the way. I'm also not fond of
> WYSIWYG word processors and prefer using XHTML or DocBook/XML or other non-
> WYSIWYG markup languages. If you are going to enable such a feature, please
> make it optional.

I agree - it is vital that WYSIWYG be optional. There is no way we'll
get the complete wikitext feature set into a WYSIWYG editor so not
having a "view code" option (preferably with an option in preferences
to default to viewing code) would be a step backwards, which is the
wrong direction.