On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 17:37, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
Some kind of syntax highlighting might be good (we obviously have syntax highlighting extensions already installed, the trick now is just making it work in the edit window). Syntax folding might be a nice addition too, but I've never seen that in a working web interface. WYSIWYG is obviously the ultimate goal, but progress on that has been understandably slow. There are some interesting helpful editing extensions available, maybe some of them need to be evaluated and good cross-platform features could be folded into MediaWiki's core eventually.
For what it's worth, I think WYSIWYG is evil. But there is probably a middle path between cluttered text and Word-like unstructuration.
To some extent, I am thinking that this difficult in editing might prompt vandalism (It's all gibberish anyway, so who cares") and prevent participation ("I seriously tried to edit this page to make this grammatical mistake go away, but I just couldn't".)
http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/ might be useful tho. It allows to enter structure as well as specify looks.
Might be better to take out the looks parts tho.
Finne/henna