[Mediawiki-l] Apple's Wiki Server brings WYSIWYG to wiki (Brion Vibber)

[Brion Vibber]

joshua seagroves wrote:
>  Brion,  
>> I advise you not to waste time waiting on these integration efforts. The
>> back-and-forth conversion they require is likely to never work properly.

> This is an interesting point you are making and a bold statement considering
> this was a very popular topic at this years WikiMania. In every session i sat
> in the WYSIWYG was brought up and seemed to be something needed/wanted.

WYSIWYG is/will be important, but the current efforts are climbing a very steep
wall and the lack of standardization for the present markup makes it very easy
to slip and fall.

If you need WYSIWYG *now*, you'll really want to look elsewhere; there are
several companies catering specifically to this kind of environment and some of
them have taken up WYSIWYG environments with gusto.

If you're working with lots of data *now*, like us, and would like WYSIWYG *some
day*, that's another matter.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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