[Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor svn head and MW 1.16b2 - correct venue?

[Robert Cummings]

Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote:
> I agree.  The latest version that I use (2.6.4) has a (C) menu button that allows you to add Categories to your page, bringing up a dialog box and showing existing categories to choose from or to create a new one.  Nice feature since I always hate, while editing in wikitext, to have to start up a second browser just to go see what categories are available.  I agree templates may be challenging, but that would be another brick to lay another day.

Yeah we love being able to select pages and images via the associated 
popups for those also-- just start typing keywords and a list of matches 
is generated. We had to increase the list size to 100 though, 10 was way 
too short.

With respect to templates, FCKeditor has a little button for opening up 
a list of templates from which a user can select. It supports a title, 
description, and snapshot image via an XML configuration. We are going 
to be reworking this to have it support Wiki templates since currently 
it only supports HTML. Probably we'll ditch the XML file though and use 
a wiki page to configure entries so it can be done by bureaucrats :)

Anyways, a well integrated WYSIWYG is far less cumbersome for many of 
these routines tasks than using wiki code and multiple windows to view 
what is available. Although, there's nothing really stopping the 
WikiCode editor from having some of this functionality in it's buttons 
also instead of them just outputing the empty WikiCode for a link, or file.

Cheers,
Rob.
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