Filed bugs: *Bug 780227* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780227> - MDN doesn't support wiki-style markup editing
*Bug 780231* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780231> - MDN uses HTML as its source format, making interop with wiki markups hard (blocks 780227) Benoit 2012/8/3 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com> > > > 2012/8/3 Jeff Hammel <jham...@mozilla.com> > >> I would argue HTML is a good, or even great, backing format. It's what >> mozilla does. It is a real standard. There are a plethora of tools to deal >> with HTML documents. It is very malleable. There is a clear DOM >> translation to its markup. > > > How is this compatible with the fact that earlier in this thread, it has > been said that the fact that the HTML source of MDN pages was hard to > translate to other markup languages, meaning that offering another markup > editing option would be hard? > > Source formats should be easy to translate to other formats. HTML is > mostly a final-form format, in this respect. HTML code generated by WYSIWYG > editors even more so. > > Benoit > > > >> >> That said, we know that there are people that prefer MediaWiki and we'll >>>> see if we can find a way to let people use some kind of tool that lets >>>> them >>>> paste MediaWiki syntax in and get it automatically converted into HTML. >>>> But >>>> that's not going to happen right away, since there are still some more >>>> fundamental site features we need to work on. >>>> >>>> I know this is frustrating to some people that prefer MediaWiki syntax, >>>> and we'll see what we can do. I just can't make any promises, and >>>> obviously >>>> anything we do manage to do won't be the same as a raw MediaWiki setup. >>>> >>>> Even just minimal basic support for some mediawiki markup would make it >>> more convenient for me to type documents in, than to have to type in HTML >>> or use a WYSIWYG editor. >>> >>>> I'm surprised you hadn't heard of Kuma; we've been talking about it at >>>> length for over a year, including posts to this very mailing list asking >>>> for people to help us test it. This makes me feel sad since we worked so >>>> hard to get the word out. :) >>>> >>>> Nah, I don't read mailing lists carefully enough and I don't contribute >>> much to MDN, so this only speaks of my own ignorance. >>> >>> Thanks for taking care of MDN! >>> Benoit >>> >>> >>> >>> Eric Shepherd >>>> Developer Documentation Lead >>>> Mozilla >>>> http://www.bitstampede.com/ >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> dev-platform mailing list >>>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>>> https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> dev-platform mailing list >>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> >> > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
