On Dec 14, 2011 3:16 PM, "Daniel Barrett" danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton writes:
The challenge is having pages that can be edited both by wysiwyg and in
wikitext without the
two tripping over each other.
To address this, I think any visual editor project needs to decide which
audience it's serving:
- The average user
- The average user AND power users
If you're serving power users, the visual editor must perform powerful
edits more quickly & easily than typing wikitext directly. If you're serving only the average user, you don't have to worry about this, but complex wikitext (templates & parser functions/tags) needs to be protected against breakage by the average user.
The issue is that, even if power users don't use the new interface they still need to be able to use the old one to edit the same articles. If the wikitext created by the visual editor is unnecessarily complicated and unreadable (like the html produced by ms frontpage, for instance) then there is problem. Similarly, the visual editor needs to be able to parse even quite strangely written wikitext.