Sanne, I agree with you "in principal". Unfortunately, reality is that most people prefer to tinker with the layout/styling than concentrating on generating content (which is a lot more difficult).
This leads to WYSIWYGot editors to be what most users want to have. I believe "the market" for a more sensible approach is rather small (and thus probably the effort developers want to spend on it). Wouldn't it be rather straight forward to implement the markdown preview by just processing the input on the server (translating it to HTML) and just display that on the frontend? Cheers, Fritz On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Sanne Peters wrote: > Hi John, > > I'd like to respond to this: /"IMHO markdown is useless for non-technical > customers"/. How do you get this impression? > > Markdown was purposely created for non-technical people to give them a > mark-up language: > > 1. that did not have all the features that HTML had (making it far less > complicated). > 2. that still as transparent as HTML in terms the way that mark-up is > translated to a web-page. > 3. did not have the unpredictable layout/styling behaviour caused by WYSIWYG > editors. > > In essence it lets the author focus on content, instead of layout & styling > (which is defined by a designer). > You need to educate people on why it is better than WYSIWYG's (like TinyMCE), > preferably by example. > > I you disagree, please let me know. > > kind regards, > > Sanne > > > On 31/10/14 10:48, John Spackman wrote: >>> 1) . We have seen that HTML Areas sucks (every HTML Area editors ) , But >>> markdown is replacing HTML Areas ! We need markdown Preview , in place of >>> HTMLAreas. >>> >> HtmlArea did?t work out, because unfortunately writing a cross browser >> editor is a major project on it?s own (esp including IE6 support, which was >> a requirement at the time) - integrations with other third party editors >> are the way to go, e.g. TinyMCE and CKEditor. There are contribs for at >> least CKEditor if not TinyMCE. >> >> IMHO markdown is useless for non-technical customers, I certainly don?t >> have any that would see it as an upgrade from TinyMCE. >> >> John >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> qooxdoo-devel mailing list >> qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > > -- Oetiker+Partner AG tel: +41 62 775 9903 (direct) Fritz Zaucker +41 62 775 9900 (switch board) Aarweg 15 +41 79 675 0630 (mobile) CH-4600 Olten fax: +41 62 775 9905 Schweiz web: www.oetiker.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
