I completely agree with you that if you need the full features of Word a wiki WYSIWYG
editor will not likely match those of Word, at least those editors available today. But
most people do not use all of those features. Most are simply text with attributes like
bold, italics, etc. You must upload an image first of course, we must remember this is
first and foremost a wiki, but it is easy to take that image and insert it using the
FCKeditor. But if you want to see the real power of a wysiwyg editor for mediawiki,
create a table in wikitext then go to the FCKeditor sandbox and create the same table.
For a 10 row by 6 column table the first will take you about 10 minutes, the later will
take you 10 seconds.
-Jim
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sylvain Machefert
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word
I haven't play a lot with WYSIWYG editors, but I doubt it can do all things
people like to do on word. In my neighboor, at work, I have plenty of people
using word/excel every day.
- can you insert image with copy/paste without uploading them ?
- can you draw some arrows, frames... ?
- can you insert a table which is an Excel file ? (in Word you can insert an
Excel sheet, that's buggy, heavy file... but they all do that)
- table not from excel : easy to resize, insert/delete lines, change
background color or style for one line/one column... is it possible in
WYSIWYG ?
- they like the "tab" key to indent the first line of each paragraph, in
WYSIWYG does it indent text? or go to next field as in all normal html forms
?
- they heavily uses styles for titles, lists (like <ol>,<ul>...)
but with WYSIWYG, you'll never have problem with normal.dot !! yeah!
I think it's better to use a software which has features you need.
My 2 cents.
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Sylvain Machefert
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