On 23 December 2010 11:48, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Not everybody works that way. Most of us don't. To those people the buttons I find annoying may be the only thing they *do* understand, they're the most accessible way of using a computer, and a user interface lacking those buttons is alien and incomprehensible. With the buttons, these people are intuitively able to produce a reasonable minimal subset of tasks immediately as long as the result of their work is displayed immediately (WYSIWYG). It's still annoying, though.
Yeah. It won't be a happener on WMF sites, I think, until WMF has money to throw at developers to develop something that actually works and has fidelity with wikitext as it's used. This is a *big and hairy* problem that interested parties have been dashing their foreheads against for *years*.
- d.