[Wikipedia-l] New edit modus

[Fred Bauder]

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> From: Till Westermayer <till at tillwe.de>
> Organization: till we *)
> Reply-To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Date: 18 Jan 2004 19:19:00 +0100
> To: <wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] New edit modus
> 
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> Hi wikipedia-l,
> 
> the server is extremly slow at the moment, so I move this from the
> village pump to here. Eloquence wants to implement a default edit mode
> using click-buttons for formating. This doesn't work with a number of
> browsers. With some, it just doesn't do anything (browser that don't
> support JavaScript). With other browsers which support JavaScript but
> not the right kind, it does funny things (as inserting the formating
> tags not at the cursors place, but at the end of the edited text). One
> of this browsers is Netscape 7.1, and if I understand the discussion at
> the village pump correclty, Mozilla won't work correctly, too. Still,
> Eloquence wants to make this fancy editing mode the default mode --
> which would led to an seemingly unusable wikipedia editing for a number
> of browsers. I must admit that I don't like the introduction of fancy
> editing at all, but if we introduce it, it either should work with *all*
> browsers currently used, or it should be off by default.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Till
> 
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