Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
>> The current macro image gets people confused (among "people" I count
>> myself
>> -> I hardly ever used the parameters available in the macro image).
>> Here
>> again, if we use the "% %" model we need to be aware that most users
>> won't
>> ever input parameters to their images, unless they use the WYSIWYG
>> editor.
>> Since we expect it to work great, that's fine with me, but I simply
>> want us
>> to be aware that doing this we make the XWiki syntax at least as
>> complex as
>> HTML, which basically removes its interest as a simplified markup.
>
> And this is good! Wiki markup should focus on simple things. If it
> were easy people would put colors and styles everywhere which is bad.
> It's good that's it's not easy.
>
> It's just an extension since we MUST have it for the wysiwyg to work
> and be able to style documents without incurring the penalty of using
> the {{html}} macro which would provide visual garbage in wiki edition
> mode.
>
+1, people should learn that "the content is king", providing good
content is much more important than coloring it nicely. If it is not
simple to do, then don't do it, unless you really have to.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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