It's important to note that technically if one were to bypass wikitext completely, you could store serialized wikidom instead and use the visual editor immediately. This is obviously useless for the purposes of Wikipedia, which is why we need the parser that Gabriel is mentioning, and the visual editor itself isn't really mature enough quite yet for this kind of use.
- Trevor
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Gabriel Wicke wicke@wikidev.net wrote:
The first question I have is: how much trouble will we encounter if we're not using wiki markup? We store everything as HTML5 everywhere, and we're converting our old sites to HTML5 on import.
Our current parser pipeline also converts the mixed wiki/html markup into an annotated HTML5 DOM, and then (actually since today) converts that to WikiDom. So good support for back-and-forth between WikiDom and HTML DOM is highly likely.
Gabriel
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