Hoi,
When so many people are turned off by syntax of any kind, it makes sense to
prevent them to see such syntax. It should be there however for those who do
not consider it a turn off.
Thanks,
GerardM
2008/12/7 Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
Brian wrote:
Thank you Erik!
But I do not believe the potential scope of these two extensions has been
appropriately realized by the powers that be, otherwise the technologies
would have been put to a large scale trial sooner. It is not just about
the
facts contained in template data. With these
extensions more advanced
wiki
users can design information architectures that
abstract away all of the
complicated syntax.
Isn't that what this is about? WYSIWYG can only do so much unless you
plan
to re-implement the parser in javascript.
The relevant parts of the parser can quite easily be ported to JavaScript.
That's well within the reach of a project on this scale and it will
certainly be considered.
Non-technical users seem to be put off by syntax of any kind, simple or
complex.
-- Tim Starling
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