On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Beyond that let's flip the question the other way -- what do we *want* >> out >> of WYSIWYG editing, and can that tool provide it or what else do we need? > > We want something simpler and easier to use. That is not what Wikia has. > I could hardly stand trying it out for a few minutes.
So, why not use my WYSIFTW approach? It will only "parse" the parts of the wikitext that it can turn back, edited or unedited, into wikitext, unaltered (including whitespace) if not manually changed. Some parts may therefore stay as wikitext, but it's very rare (except lists, which I didn't implement yet, but they look intuitive enough). Today's featured article parses in 2 sec in Chrome, so it's fast enough for most situations using a current browser, and it also supports section editing. There's basic functionality for most things, even a one-click "insert reference" function. There's also still lots missing, but nothing fundamental, mostly time-sink functions like "insert table column" etc. Magnus _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
