Quoting Patrick Crowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm curious, do you think that non-IT-types would be open-minded > > enough to learn Markdown. > > Yes, I do, Ken. Markdown is very simple.
I am not sure simplicity is the issue. It certainly isn't for me. My 2 problems with all the sort-of markup schemes are 1) sooner or later you end up wanting to actually use one of the markup characters in a way that lead to unintended formatting (for example CamelCase product names within a wiki and suddenly you have a link to a non-existent page) AND 2) my big one, I can never remember what is the stand in for what. Is "*" italics or bold? > Another thing to consider... 37Signals uses Textile, which is > actually more complicated than Markdown, and they've had great > success... and I suspect many of their users are non-IT-types. :) Probably - but many of their users use the site A LOT and so can remember from visit to visit what the different symbols are. Addressing the original poster's other criteria, does using markdown or textile make it easier to disallow all actual code? If so, it might be a big win from the security/uniform look and feel perspective - just as long as it does not discourage people from posting to the site. -- Cynthia Kiser --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
