Joshua Yeidel wrote:
The term WYSIWYG is often used to describe user interfaces which give the appearance that the user is directly manipulating the final output. Think Microsoft Word.
Wikiwyg, on the other hand, is a live preview. You still type wikitext, which is a code. [I happen to think wikiwyg is very cool, even if it isn't WYSIWYG.]
Wikiwyg uses the browser's HTML editor widget, and converts the HTML back to wikitext for saving -- hopefully to wikitext which will translate back to what you edited. ;)
You can also click a tab to look at the reconverted wikitext before you save.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)