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Virgil Ierubino wrote:
Why is MediaWiki so low-tech? [snip]
I'm sure this kind of response will spark righteous indignation on the part of every developer who has a clue on what's going on underneath MediaWiki's hood. Plus, lack of AJAX does not mean "low-tech", which you have so insinuated.
Furthermore, you've mixed up AJAX (which, while slow in coming, is being implemented when appropriate) and inline-WYSIWYG editing (which poses immense technical challenges due to the legacy baggage of our wikitext format). If you want to see "state-of-the-art" MediaWiki work, please check out: http://wikiwyg.net/ http://demo.wikiwyg.net/wikiwyg/demo/standalone/
Finally, the trouble of maintaining accessibility is probably the last of our concerns. We don't /have/ the more advanced features implemented in a stable manner yet, this is *open source*