On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:08 PM, vitalif@yourcmc.ru wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:20:51 +0100, Platonides wrote:
Also note, doing little plaintext changes expose the users to the syntax, so they would be slowly getting more familiar with it.
Yes, visual editor is really useful only for totally "technically disabled" users. At long last, most of the internet users successfully use BBCode on the forums - why they can't use wikitext?..
No, some/many of the internet users who use forums use BBCode, to varying degrees of success. That is a very small subsection of the whole of internet users, many of which will run away screaming from both BBCode and wikitext markup.
If big changes can only be done with plaintext, there's something wrong in your Visual Editor.
I mean plaintext is always more convenient for doing something big. For example, it's just faster to enter '''text''' instead of mouse-clicking [B], then switching back to keyboard, entering "text" and again clicking [B]. If you have keyboard shortcuts, then it will be Ctrl-B text Ctrl-B, which is not easier than entering '''text''' but involves switching between some modes (bold/not bold).
For someone who can't or don't want to wrap their head around wikitext, which I suspect is the vast majority of internet users, the difference is between "no editing" and "Word-speed editing".