On 8/10/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:57:58PM +0100, Christiaan Briggs wrote:
For your interest, it looks like Apple has come to the party with a wiki of its own, without the need for people to learn markup language: http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/wikiserver.html
[ looks ]
Oh, it's a wiki with a WYSIWYG editor on the front.
Yeah, we've got that.
Do we? I was thinking about this. Even the wikiwyg we looked at a couple of weeks ago essentially forces you to edit wikitext, and separately shows it to you. Do we have anything that works like Word, for instance?
I ask this not as a clueless user, or on behalf of people who are too lazy to learn syntax. But as someone who does a *lot* of editing in MediaWiki, and who finds the "spot the mistake, click edit, find the same spot in the code, change, save" cycle far too slow. Editing would be a hell of a lot more efficient if one could simply click on the place to edit, and start typing. I imagine the basic cycle looking like this:
1. Click on the text. 2. A surrounding patch of text (a sentence? a paragraph?) is "locked" (no one else can edit it) and highlighted, and somehow rendered "editable". 3. Edit, drag text around etc. If necessary, mark other bits of text as being "locked" as well so you can edit them. 4. Press a commit button.
I don't know that this would work well for more complex syntax like tables, but even if it only worked for small, local changes (like typo fixing) it would be a major improvement.
Steve