On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:29:30PM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
On 8/13/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
All of this is quite a tangent from the original question about WYSIWYG editors though. The basic question is "is it possible to have a user-friendly, genuine WYSIWYG editing tool that does not conflict with editors working directly in wikitext".
Certainly it is. As has been noted, it's going to be difficult to make it 100% until the syntax is formalized.
And my counter-question is "What about a WYSIWYG editor that's good enough to make working directly in wikitext unnecessary for even the most hardcore power-users?"
*Why do you continue to presume that those hardcore power-users Won't Want To Use Wikitext.* I'm *not* one of them, and I damned sure want to.
The follow-up question is "is anyone going to write it?"
That's a definite yes. Jimbo hath spoken, and I think work is supposed to already be underway (but apparently not in our SVN repo).
Quite so.
Cheers, -- jra