Chris Cox wrote: [...]
>> several people I asked recently also said that every kind-of-WYSIWYG >> CMS they know sometimes creates wrong (and hard to repair) markup. > >None of them are truly WYSIWYG.. they ALL have errors.. and none of them cover >a >true wiki scenario. Maybe "visual" describes it better. >> Nevertheless there is one case where a WYSIWYG editor is extremly >> useful: Table editing! > >I disagree.. somewhat. Again, having used some of the "table editors" inside >of >supposedly superior "wiki" alternatives (btw, most of the people whining are >probably NOT looking at a wiki)... I can tell you that the editor bites you >almost as much as it helps you. And when it messes up, you can lose data and that's what I wanted to express. I'm no WYSIWYG advocate since I also think that it will limit you more than it helps in most cases. I just wanted to point out one scenario where visual editing (in the wiki or in an external application) is useful: Extensive editing of tables with horizontally and vertically related data. And I also listed ways to do it... [...] >I've got an extension to PmWiki that turns all tables into streaming csv for a >page... and I submitted the PmDocConvert that allows you to embed and portray ...Text2Tbl works for me. ConvertHTML with Kompozer is also viable. Oliver _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
