Jamie Bliss wrote:
Hi.
I had no idea of the wikiwyg.net site. Hmmm... the naming does seem to be a bit of a collision, but I'm guessing they just hadn't seen my project. I own wikiwyg.org, but haven't set anything up on it yet - I had a pretty serious injury a while back so laid off the geeking for a bit. I'll fire them off a mail and post here what they say.
Anyway, my limbs are coming back online so I should have my domain properly running soon, maybe middle of next week and then I'll start promoting my little project a bit more. Now I've graduated it's done as a dissertation (I got 84% for it, btw :) and I can put it properly under the GPL.
Coming soon should be some better compatability. I finally got an old Windows box donated, so getting it working in IE 6 is certainly doable. First though, I'll get Konqueror/Safari working, because Konq is my main browser.
The wikiwyg.net stuff seems to be a textarea implementation. That's an approach I considered, but has some drawbacks that I couldn't really think of serious ways of getting around. One is that the same end result can be written several ways as wikitext, and if you're transforming to HTML and then back, the wikitext tends to get a bit mangled/ugly. This is fine if people only ever use the rich editor, but if you have users on both the rich editor users would probably be despised by the plain editor users for junking a load of wikitext formatting whenever they edit. I don't really want to comment on their project too much (holy war etc)
-- Ta, Jim
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.