On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Mark Wonsil <wonsil(a)4m-ent.com> wrote:
Not to mention, it puts all of the presentation logic
in the article
which eliminates the benefits of using CSS.
That is not an inherent characteristic of WYSIWYG. It's true of
WYSIWYG as implemented in, for instance, Microsoft Word, but it
doesn't have to be true of other WYSIWYG systems. The defining
characteristic of WYSIWYG is that while editing the page, it looks the
same as it will be displayed when you save, rather than looking like
plaintext markup while you edit and then looking like rendered
non-plaintext when you save. No one is suggesting that we give users
a menu to change the color or size of text, or do any other purely
presentational thing like that. A WYSIWYG system that we'd use and
support would probably have similar features to the current edit
toolbar -- headers, links, bold, etc.