On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 17:37, Andrew Whitworth
<wknight8111(a)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".)
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
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