On 23-May-09, at 2:41 AM, Daniel F. Kudwien wrote:
<Digital7> tha_sun: seems like it'd be a top priority for the project..given how significantly it improves the usability
Does anyone know of any papers studying the differences between various editor types, and if any of them can be shown to actually improve usability and user satisfaction? I did some searching, and I found:
http://www.jasoncornwell.net/projects/BloggerFinalReport.pdfwhich is about a UI redesign of blogger.com; not much in there other than that users found editors to be problematic for image placement, and that the concept of previewing an edit didn't stick very well.
I also found this which may be of interest: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/275269.275272It's from 1998, but many of the issues it finds about HTML editors still seem relevant today. Complaints about poor code, overwriting custom changes, and general unreliability are mentioned, which all seem to apply to most of the JS editors today.
A comparison of WYSIWYG vs WYMIWYG would be very useful. --Andrew
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