http://drupal.org/node/208456
Andrew Berry wrote:
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.pdf
which 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/10.1145/275269.275272
It'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
