On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:20:51 +0100, Platonides wrote: >> >> Also note, doing little plaintext changes expose the users to the >> syntax, so they would be slowly getting more familiar with it. > > > Yes, visual editor is really useful only for totally "technically disabled" > users. At long last, most of the internet users successfully use BBCode on > the forums - why they can't use wikitext?..
No, some/many of the internet users who use forums use BBCode, to varying degrees of success. That is a very small subsection of the whole of internet users, many of which will run away screaming from both BBCode and wikitext markup. > >> If big changes can only be done with plaintext, there's something wrong >> in your Visual Editor. > > > I mean plaintext is always more convenient for doing something big. > For example, it's just faster to enter '''text''' instead of mouse-clicking > [B], then switching back to keyboard, entering "text" and again clicking > [B]. If you have keyboard shortcuts, then it will be Ctrl-B text Ctrl-B, > which is not easier than entering '''text''' but involves switching between > some modes (bold/not bold). For someone who can't or don't want to wrap their head around wikitext, which I suspect is the vast majority of internet users, the difference is between "no editing" and "Word-speed editing". _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
