On 04.01.2011 22:39, Brion Vibber wrote:
In order to
have a visual editor or three, combined with a plain text
editor, combined with some fancy other editor we have yet to invent, you
will still need that specification that tells you what a valid wiki instance
is. This is the core data; only if you have a clear spec of that can you
have tool and UI innovation on top of that.
Exactly my point -- spending time tinkering with
sortof-human-readable-but-not-powerful-enough syntax distracts from thinking
about what needs to be *described* in the data... which is the important
thing needed when devising an actual storage or interchange format.
Perhaps we should stop thinking about "formats" and start thinking about the
document model. Spec an (extensible) WikiDOM, let people knock themselves out
with different syntaxes to describe/create it. The "native" format could be
serialized php objects for all I care.
-- daniel