[Mediawiki-l] wikiwyg in mediawiki

[Joshua Yeidel]

For clarity, the one I described as a "live preview" is wikiwyg.org.  I
believe the one Brion described as HTML-to-wikitext is wikiwyg.net.

-- Joshua



On 4/26/06 3:55 PM, "Erik Moeller" <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/27/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Joshua Yeidel wrote:
>>> The term WYSIWYG is often used to describe user interfaces which give the
>>> appearance that the user is directly manipulating the final output.  Think
>>> Microsoft Word.
>>> 
>>> Wikiwyg, on the other hand, is a live preview.  You still type wikitext,
>>> which is a code.  [I happen to think wikiwyg is very cool, even if it isn't
>>> WYSIWYG.]
>> 
>> Wikiwyg uses the browser's HTML editor widget, and converts the HTML back to
>> wikitext for saving -- hopefully to wikitext which will translate back to
>> what
>> you edited. ;)
>> 
>> You can also click a tab to look at the reconverted wikitext before you save.
> 
> There's two Wikiwygs, one at wikiwyg.net and one at wikiwyg.org. They
> are different technologies.
> 
> Erik
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