[Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

[Tim Starling]

Brian wrote:
> Thank you Erik!
> But I do not believe the potential scope of these two extensions has been
> appropriately realized by the powers that be, otherwise the technologies
> would have been put to a large scale trial sooner. It is not just about the
> facts contained in template data. With these extensions more advanced wiki
> users can design information architectures that abstract away all of the
> complicated syntax.
> 
> Isn't that what this is about? WYSIWYG can only do so much unless you plan
> to re-implement the parser in javascript.

The relevant parts of the parser can quite easily be ported to JavaScript.
That's well within the reach of a project on this scale and it will
certainly be considered.

Non-technical users seem to be put off by syntax of any kind, simple or
complex.

-- Tim Starling