On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:25 +0100, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
Through
this mailing-list, I see that we are struggling with Wikitext, which
is a time-consuming work. What I suggest is, instead of wasting more time,
we can change to XML, which is clearer, easy to parse, easy to understand
and easy to extend.
You want an XML based language for describing the formatting of
webpages? Basically, you're suggesting we switch to XHTML (with more
some features removed and a few added). XHTML is much harder to learn
and use than wikitext, even for experienced users.
XHTML would only be good for the formatting aspects. It can't represent parser
functions, template calls, etc. XML lets you mix and match vocabularies, of course.
-- Daniel
For the average user I believe Wikitext to be the easiest to learn,
however I am not an expert on the technical aspects and ressources used
by using Wikitext. On the subject of creating a WYSIWYG editor, I don't
believe this is the best solution. Instead, the current editor could be
expanded to include forms similar to many popular Blog softwares, e.g.
Wordpress.
For example, if a user wants to include an image this is quite easy for
an experienced user, however for a beginner it can be quite complicated.
If instead a dialog would appear asking for various parameters, for
example size, thumb, description and alignment, this would make it a lot
more simpler - no matter if the result get's displayed as Wikitext or
WYSIWYG.
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]
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