"HDM" == Hr Daniel Mikkelsen daniel@copyleft.no writes:
HDM> To me, wiki markup is just another editor in front of the HDM> real content. I expect to see a wysiwyg editor one day as HDM> well, and I expect to see the contents stored in XML for ease HDM> of access and because databases will offer us more features HDM> that way.
I think one of the main principles of wiki is making wiki pages easily editable by anyone. Pages full of XML or HTML markup don't meet this requirement.
I think a WYSIWYG editor* should be part of MediaWiki 2.0. There's some discussion of the problems with it here:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor
The main problem is that in-browser WYSIWYG editors produce HTML, which would mess things up for people who must or prefer to work with Wiki markup. We'd need to parse the HTML produced by WYSIWYG editors back into wiki markup for storage. I think Magnus's recent HTML-to-wiki converter may be a big step to making this work.
~ESP
* and an SVG whiteboard, too.