Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
> 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 ?
>
In that case, Guillaume, there wouldn't actually be a problem, as for
renaming variables most of us use a refactoring feature... You really
*shouldn't* use find & replace for that...
Anyway, I don't like the analogy, as we're not telling users not to do
something, we're encouraging them to do it the right way. Just like
maven does.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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