WYSIWYG editors are the bane of my existence. Cary
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Pottinger, Hardy J. <pottinge...@umsystem.edu> wrote: > I'll just say my experience with the Confluence WYSIWYG editor hasn't been > great. Now, partly, that might have been the fact that the one page I > tried using it on had been migrated from another wiki, so, to be fair, the > WYSIWYG editor was being presented with a challenge. But, from a user's > POV, I have to say, editing with a WYSIWYG editor on a wiki is like a > prank waiting for a punch line, and you, the well-meaning user, are the > punch line. If you don't want to be embarrassed, I highly recommend going > "advanced mode". :-) > > That experience has lead me to approach most WYSIWYG editors with caution. > Don't trust 'em. > -- > HARDY POTTINGER <pottinge...@umsystem.edu> > University of Missouri Library Systems > http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ > https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/ > "Time and accident are committing daily havoc on the originals of the > valuable historical and State papers deposited in our public offices. The > late war has done the work of centuries in this business. The last cannot > be recovered but let us save what remains not by vaults and locks which > fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them beyond the reach > of accident" --Thomas Jefferson > > > > > > On 7/25/12 8:32 AM, "Sean Hannan" <shan...@jhu.edu> wrote: > >>As an administrator of a Confluence installation, I have to say that I >>hate >>it. >> >>Confluence is fine if you are not going to be touching it or doing any >>kind >>of local customizations (hooking it into local auth, etc.). If that's the >>case, you should really be looking at the hosted version. >> >>I've found that Atlassian is frustrating to deal with for support. I ran >>into a bug in Confluence that has been an open ticket in their issue >>tracker >>for 6 years. Years. I've found upgrades to be a pain, generally, and >>sometimes Atlassian will be fast and furious with them and it's hard to >>keep >>up. And the longer you wait, the more painful the upgrades become. >> >>I don't deal with the money side of things, but I definitely think that we >>do not get what we pay for with Confluence. >> >>-Sean >> >>On 7/25/12 9:05 AM, "Nathan Tallman" <ntall...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> That's what I'm worried about with MediaWiki. The syntax used when >>>creating >>> and editing pages isn't intuitive and I'm afraid people won't want to >>>use >>> it. I was hoping someone would recommend a wiki with more of a WYSIWYG >>>type >>> of editing interface. Was also hoping to stick with FLOSS, but perhaps I >>> should at least peak at Confluence. >>> >>> Thanks for the input, >>> Nathan >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Nate Vack <njv...@wisc.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> If you're expecting "everyone" to create and edit pages, >>>> it will be very hard to get widespread adoption with it. >>>> -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
