Tels wrote:
From en.wkipedia.org/WYSIWYM:
WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) is the paradigm created for LyX. It means that the things displayed on a computer screen should accurately display the information that is trying to be conveyed rather than the actual formatting.
How that would be helpful in wiki-page authoring, where formatting is part of the meaning (unlike XML authoring, which is where WYSIWYM originates).
I am not sure if it is really possible to seperate meaning (list item number one) and formatting (this is a list item). The user usually has to specify both, anyway.
One could whip up a JS (think ajax) editor that behaves like word, but so far I think nobody did it. Probably because in Word, you select a headline, type the text in, then select lots of styling (bold/color/size etc), so having lots of fancy options is desired.
I just felt the need to comment on the plans we have to integrate SynchroEdit (www.synchroedit.com) with MediaWiki at some point. I'm hopeful I can get to work on an extension at some point fairly soon, but who knows. Sorry for faintly off-topicness. :)
-Kalle.