On 26/02/2008, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
well, confluence *does* offer wysiwyg, in contrary to mediawiki...
Lack of good WYSIWYG in MediaWiki is a major problem for wider acceptance of the software. This is a well-understood problem, if an as yet unsolved one :-)
There are some WYSIWYG editors for MediaWiki, but they're not that great beyond the basics of wikitext. Anything fancy is fraught with difficulties.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor
Good WYSIWYG is mostly blocked on a good wikitext grammar. Steve Bennett is leading the effort to write one on wikitext-l:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitext-l/
You can see work so far at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec/ANTLR
Once that's done, WYSIWYG editor writers won't have to try to reverse-engineer wikitext themselves.
- d.