On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Mark Wonsil wonsil@4m-ent.com wrote:
Not to mention, it puts all of the presentation logic in the article which eliminates the benefits of using CSS.
That is not an inherent characteristic of WYSIWYG. It's true of WYSIWYG as implemented in, for instance, Microsoft Word, but it doesn't have to be true of other WYSIWYG systems. The defining characteristic of WYSIWYG is that while editing the page, it looks the same as it will be displayed when you save, rather than looking like plaintext markup while you edit and then looking like rendered non-plaintext when you save. No one is suggesting that we give users a menu to change the color or size of text, or do any other purely presentational thing like that. A WYSIWYG system that we'd use and support would probably have similar features to the current edit toolbar -- headers, links, bold, etc.