On 14 February 2014 15:40, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
On 02/14/2014 10:39 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrote:
VisualEditor is an HTML editor and doesn't
know about wikitext.
That single sentence explains so much.
If you would have told me two years ago,
I could have said "wrong path, this will fail".
(Of course, many would have protested and
refused to listen to sound advice, but now
we know the outcome.)
Thanks for your timely input. :-)
We pointed out some of the (dozens of) reasons why a client-side
implementation of the parser wasn't a workable solution when we made the
choice to take this route; sorry you didn't notice that at the time.
What do you predict we will be using five
years from now, in 2019? Plain old wikitext,
VisualEditor, or some other path?
For new out-of-the-box MediaWiki installs? Almost certainly HTML.
For existing legacy MediaWiki sites with sane quantities of extensions?
Probably HTML for most.
For WMF's currently-hosted sites? Probably wikitext, but it's possible that
we'll have switched.
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester