On Jan 17, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Pascal Voitot wrote: > Some questions arising in my head: > do you want to make the WYSIWYG the cornerstone of XWiki online > editing or > is it only the XWiki2.0 syntax editor? > do you want to make multi-syntax a key feature of XWiki or is it > only a > facility provided so that people can use easily XWiki and when they > are used > to it, they will naturally begin to use XWIki2.0 syntax? > > If WYSIWYG is used only with XWiki2.0 syntax, it might look like you > are > strongly encouraging people to use XWIki2.0 syntax instead of other > syntaxes. Is it a good or bad strategy? I don't know... to be > discussed :)
IMO we must strongly encourage people to use the xwiki 2.0 syntax and the other syntaxes are only a facility (at least for now and the foreseeable future IMO). Reasons: 1) it's hard to fix all parsers for all syntaxes 2) other syntaxes are all way less powerful than the xwiki syntax. 3) there are issues with links in other syntaxes. For ex the ability to link to multi wikis which doesn't exist in most syntaxes so they'll only offer a very small subset of xwiki linking features and you wouldn't be able to link between wikis. Unless we extend other syntaxes of course (need to find syntax for doing that and write link parsers for that) 4) the new wysiwyg only works well with the 2.0 syntax 5) We'd need to write syntax renderers for all syntaxes if we want them to be equal to the xwiki 2.0 one but if we do so then we have the issues raised in 2). As time progresses we'll probably improve other syntax support but right now we must encourage people to use the xwiki 2.0 syntax as much as possible and consider the other syntaxes as migration strategies IMO. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent > Pascal > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Vincent Massol > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just realized that our new WYSIWYG editor will only work fine with >> our >> xwiki 2.0 syntax since other wiki syntaxes are less powerful and >> won't >> be able to express some complex structures (like embedding a document >> inside a table cell) or simply like styling a portion of text. >> >> Of course this is not a problem of the wysiwyg editor per see but in >> practice it means that users using it for other syntaxes when they >> save will get a different rendered result. >> >> So I"m tempted to say that our GWT editor will only work for the >> xwiki >> 2.0 syntax and that for the other syntaxes users will have to use the >> wiki editor. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
