On 29/04/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The problem with WYSIWYG is that it goes against the
concept of
separating content and presentation. There are lots of different ways
of displaying the same wikitext (see all the different skins, but
that's only the beginning of what is theoretically possible), WYSIWYG
encourages people to write stuff that only looks right in the skin
that's used on the edit page. Writing in code encourages people to
just write the content and let the skin worry about the presentation,
which is generally preferable.
That's a sweet thought, but in practice it puts people off writing at all.
By the way, is '' and ''' in the virtuous Wiki markup content or
presentation?
- d.