Wow. I have three days away from any internet and come back to another swag of posts in this dialogue. My original comment to brent: ==Point taken Brent. BUT: Why not an editor to do something at this level.
1) not break wiki markup 2) give access to all else doing the basic 90% stuff. I know my audience. Six things is too much for much of my audience. It's cognitive overload: for some, if you have to concentrate on markup, you loose the plot for the writing. == Brent's reply: hmmm... at some point everyone (well at least most of your audience) learnt how and when to use the following: commas, semicolons, quotes, exclamation marks, parenthesis, question marks, and full-stops to designate structure to sentences. I don't buy it. A couple of million editors of another wiki didn't either. == Point taken Brent (although I will reply to this comment separately), but I think I didn't quite make myself clear. (A post bashed off as I went out the door on holiday. . .) Text entry is key - this is where the ideas and the hard work meet. Formatting is different. It is a different act. Especially the tables bit. What I think could turn the tide for my hypothetical users is a WYSIWYG view where 1. you can edit text. (90% of the use??) 2. And add images. 3. And format headings, bold and italic 4. Upload files This means you could see a nice view with tables displayed/images placed right/borders, stylng and lines etc etc etc - which is difficult (or at least more difficult) to edit/visualise in classic MW markup - for most people. You then can just edit/think/type the text bit with no impediment to having to navigate through the MW markup tables stuff. It would help us see through the clutter to the text and just edit it - - - This kind of editor - just a text editor, not a tables editor - should be a piece of cake? -Derek --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
