On 17 January 2011 01:35, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
There is the question of what browsers/versions to test for.
It depends what your goal is.
Absolutely. As it stand now it's more of a proof of concept than anything else. It's incredibly interesting technically, but it's not at all clear what it will look like in the end, and who the target audience for this is.
If your goal is to use this by default with core MediaWiki, it's going to have to support Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox 3, as well as a lot of other browsers.
If this is indeed the goal, you're basically making something that will need to be at least as good -- as fast, as stable, as user-friendly as Google Docs. I say "at least", because ideally it would be better than that: the clipboard troubles alone that Google Docs has can be deal breakers for some users.
If this is going to be a tool that is meant for a large audience, I would stop developing *right now* and *first* try and find out whether WYSIWTF *if it worked perfectly* solves the users' problems. Do some basic prototyping, test stuff with a mockup, go from there.
If your goal is to create another WikEd, it can support whichever browsers you choose to support. Given the widespread use of Firefox 3, I can't see any widespread adoption of this tool happening without support for it, even if Firefox 4 is on the horizon.
If this is your goal, disregard previous. :)
Michel Vuijlsteke