As a historical note, at the start of TW5 development in 2010/11 I was determined to make it a WYSIWYG editor. The main problem I ran into was that at that time the so-called "contentEditable" feature was unreliable and inconsistent across different browsers. That's different now, happily.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/contentEditable The next problem was architectural: that using "contentEditable" produces HTML. The problem of reliably converting arbitrary HTML to wikitext is quite thorny, and I wanted to avoid getting bogged down in it. Finally, while working through it, I realised that even with a WYSIWYG editor, we'd still need separate view and edit modes. Consider a tiddler that contains some text with a transclusion somewhere within it. In view mode, the reader sees a seamless block of text, with no indication of the presence of the transclusion. Imagine that the user wants to change the transclusion to reference a different tiddler. For that, the user needs to see a visual representation of the transclusion itself so that they can interact with it and edit it. Given the need for transclusions to be invisible in normal use, all of that implies a separate mode in which widgets are editable rather than rendered as usual. So, straightforward blocks of text containing formatting like bold and italic could be directly edited without needing to flip into edit mode, but some actions would require it. Allowing direct editing of rendered output presents some difficulties, too. With the above example, imagine if the user selects text that spans the text of the transclusion and the surrounding text and then tries to delete it. Perhaps that would translate into deleting text from two separate tiddlers, but that seems counterintuitive for users. A recent commercial project I've undertaken as Federatial (https://federatial.com) for law firm client required a WYSIWYG editor, but they were happy to use HTML as their content format, so I have developed a very simple HTML WYSIWYG editing widget based on https://quilljs.com. At some point I'll polish it up for more general use. Best wishes Jeremy. -- Jeremy Ruston [email protected] https://jermolene.com > On 23 Oct 2019, at 14:57, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki > <[email protected]> wrote: > > At the heart of it all is a certain discontent with the two-mode aspect of > TW. > > Everything Mat asks for is already available in edit mode. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2742d0c6-0493-4d90-9405-c6191919725c%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/D71F071A-E225-4D08-BCF9-6405CD22A2E5%40gmail.com.
