-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l- bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:42 AM To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Apple's Wiki Server brings WYSIWYG to wiki
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:06:18AM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
So how about using XHTML internally and when sending to WYSIWYG, but if the user wants to manually edit it can be converted to wikitext and then back?
Size.
One of the reasons wikitext is as easy to comprehend as Rob and I assert that it is (and you disagree with) is that it is *physically compact*.
Hey, brion: what's the size of article bodies right now, in GB? :-)
Just a note on size - this is an argument that I think holds a lot of value. XHTML is, on average, about 12x larger than wikitext...
- Eric Astor