On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:27 +0530, Raman.P wrote: > --- On Tue, 12/10/10, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > > > +1 for WYSIWYG editor. > > > not everyone like wikipedia syntax. > > > > 1. do not top post > > 2. wikis use wiki syntax - learn to live with it. > > This is not an acceptable argument.
you left out answering the second part of my argument - in most software products, there are bare wikis - very few professionals waste time with offering more than the basic wiki syntax. I find newbies are scared of this and hence do not contribute. I find that even many people are scared of contributing to wikipedia. If the LUG is to be a training ground for producing people who can contribute (not only code, but more important, documentation) they *must* learn wiki syntax. Otherwise, the moment they join some project, we will hear 'pls 2 mk WYSIWYG'. And to answer the argument that 'web is html, so only allow raw html', I agree that this is silly. But at the same time I know of a lot of so-called web designers who do not know html, or css, and only know how to drag and drop in dreamweaver - that is not the 'nix way - one must know the basics in order that one is not a slave to the software tool. And LUG must show the way. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
