On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
Beyond that let's flip the question the other
way -- what do we *want*
out
of WYSIWYG editing, and can that tool provide it or what else do we need?
We want something simpler and easier to use. That is not what Wikia has.
I could hardly stand trying it out for a few minutes.
So, why not use my WYSIFTW approach? It will only "parse" the parts of
the wikitext that it can turn back, edited or unedited, into wikitext,
unaltered (including whitespace) if not manually changed. Some parts
may therefore stay as wikitext, but it's very rare (except lists,
which I didn't implement yet, but they look intuitive enough).
Today's featured article parses in 2 sec in Chrome, so it's fast
enough for most situations using a current browser, and it also
supports section editing. There's basic functionality for most things,
even a one-click "insert reference" function. There's also still lots
missing, but nothing fundamental, mostly time-sink functions like
"insert table column" etc.
Magnus