On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:34:38AM +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > Through this mailing-list, I see that we are struggling with Wikitext, which
> > is a time-consuming work. What I suggest is, instead of wasting more time,
> > we can change to XML, which is clearer, easy to parse, easy to understand
> > and easy to extend.
> 
> You want an XML based language for describing the formatting of
> webpages? Basically, you're suggesting we switch to XHTML (with more
> some features removed and a few added). XHTML is much harder to learn
> and use than wikitext, even for experienced users.

No, he suggests giving up the ability/necessity to use a text format as
users at all, going solely to a wysiayg, excuse me, wysiwyg editor.

Cause I'll love that a lot on my blackberry.

Cheers,
-- jra
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