On 8/9/06, Christiaan Briggs <christiaan(a)yurkycross.co.uk> wrote:
No but I'm suggesting it might be an obstacle to
having development
of it prioritised.
It is very much prioritized by both Wikia and SocialText, and Jimmy
mentioned this in his Wikimania keynote. You won't get much more
priority than two multi-million-dollar companies throwing their weight
behind it, and a Foundation-level endorsement of the effort.
By the way, I'm not necessarily talking about
"WYSIWYG in MediaWiki"
either. It's more about WYSIWYG for Wikimedia projects.
One depends on a stable and non-disruptive implementation of the other.
If integrating an editor into the current environment
is so difficult
maybe there needs to be a new approach, such as developing new
software/syntax with some type of WYSIWYG editor built in from the
start.
I don't think it would help all that much -- a declarative explanation
of what the parser has to do in particular corner cases might be
sufficient to ease some of the pain. However, some of MediaWiki's
features, such as parametrized templates, are simply complex no matter
what syntax you use to describe them; your WYSIWYG editor will have to
support them somehow.
Erik