On 8/23/05, Jonathan Sanderson lists@quernstone.com wrote:
In case people haven't seen the various bits of news coming out of (Foo|Bar)Camp last weekend: Wikiwyg is a demonstration of an in- browser WYSIWYG wiki editor. It's Mozilla/Firefox only, but rather elegant nonetheless.
<http://www.wikiwyg.net/>
Not that I wish to kick off a holy war, but with current wikis, including MediaWiki, there's clearly a learning curve for 'general public' users. Often, they're new not just to the wiki concept, but also to the very idea of markup. My own recent wiki project foundered on that hurdle; Wikiwyg is the sort of system that might make wikis dramatically more straightforward to casual users.
Besides, it's kinda fun to play with.
Lots of discussion around the blogosphere: http://technorati.com/search/wikiwyg
-- Jonathan Sanderson 'If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.' (Pascal)
Odd. I thought Wikiwyg was http://81.5.150.113/wysi/. I think it's also much cooler. I'm working on a Client-side reader/editor written in XUL/JS based on it. See my blog entry http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/blog/wikiwyg/.
I think you may have kicked off a holy war of a different kind.