On 5/22/06, Minh Nguyen mxn@zoomtown.com wrote:
Well, I would be more in favor of having a built-in code highlighter instead of a WYSIWYG editor. I think it'd improve readability, especially with the new endnote syntax threatening to take over some articles. I was going to propose doing something like this for the Summer of Code, but I just couldn't think of an elegant way to implement it. Using TinyMCE for code would require converting HTML-encoded HTML/wikitext into HTML/wikitext, and a feature using Flash or Java probably wouldn't be that popular with users.
I wasn't telling we should directly take TinyMCE. This was just an example of what could be done.
About Wysiwyg, I think that we could limit functionalities in order to encourage people to write "normally" and don't add lots of unusefull stupid tags. But Wysiwyg has its real value for tables&co, because for beginners this is a complete mess. What about an hybrid system ?
Plyd