On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
-1, we shouldn't decide what users want to do instead of them :-)
What if I came and told you that you're using your IDE the wrong way and
that from now on it's gonna be hard to do "Find & Replace" because people
*should* name their variables correctly in the first place ?
Guillaume
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