On 9/18/06, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
It does not have to be mutualy exclusive. It's a hard problem, but they are not inherently at odds.
Of course they're not. But the answer will necessarily be more complex -- and much more flexible -- than merely "kill all the damn boxes"; we can't afford to cater *only* to those editors who can't deal with complex markup any more than we can afford to cater *only* to those who can.
(I wonder whether a limited syntax highliter of sorts -- looking for, say, template invocations image inclusions, categories/interwiki links, and <ref> tags -- would be easier to write. Most of the unpleasant markup that's likely to be seen in the average article is one of those types.)