Hi Je77,

> 1. We need it to work out of the box for 99% of our users.

I didn't mean this to be a tool for 99% of your users - just to be a
tool for people already working in Squeak. Since everything in ComSwiki
is already in Squeak my thought was that it should be utterly trivial
just to reuse it.

> 2. Time. A very nice feature of CoWeb is that the time 
> between going from view to edit mode is nearly instantaneous.
> In contrast, projects (or an kind of applet/squeaklet) would
> take much longer. I feel this would seriously negatively impact
> usage.

Sigh. I don't want no web browsers (I thought I made this clear before).
I am talking about people already working in Squeak. There should be no
"edit mode". That's exactly what I _don't_ want.

> 3. Text is actually quite nice in getting people to 
> collaborate and share a space. A GUI only would get
> people to spend more time concentrating on 
> looks instead of content.

And how exactly do you come to this conclusion?! From my experience,
comparing a (sort-of) WYSIWIG Squeak workspace with that browser's text
area I find it much easier to concentrate on content in the workspace.
Or why else would I make this request, eh?! ;-)

Cheers,
  - Andreas

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