Well, yes and no. Early word processors were quite buggy, and they had to produce
postscript to send to a laser printer, postscript that no one ever had to edit in. And
what you saw was not always what you got, but improvements were made and today we expect
word processors to work flawlessly and postscript is a term only known by us old technical
guys. I also remember when spreadsheets had one sheet per file and far fewer abilities
(last century :0). Advanced features and perfection come with time.
FCKeditor's flaws are not only unsurprising they are to be expected. Its only been
around a few years with an open source level of support (Thank you Frederico!). Yet its
bugs are considered minor by our wiki users who rarely use wikitext. I guess my
frustration comes from the fckeditor having just reached an acceptable level of
performance only to see the effort to continue improving it dissolving, at least that is
how it appears. As Churchill might have said, this is F/CKeditor's finest hour!
Jim
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I think the WYSIWYG problem for wikis is similar. A
graphical front-end can hide the complexity and encourage end-user adoption, but it also
makes the advanced features difficult to use (and too easy for end-users to break by
accident). I think it'll be a while before both audiences can be served excellently.
DanB
-----Original Message-----
From: Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]
If the wysiwyg editor future is not resolved for Mediawiki soon I'm afraid we will be
forced to move toward another wiki software, most likely commercial where wysiwyg has been
around for years.....
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