On 12 February 2012 21:22, Yury Tarasievich <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, to put it less technically, you (WMF) have now on your hands one big
> text corpus in somewhat-natural language (meaning not-so-formalised), which
> is processed bottom-to-top only (for presentation).
> You want to introduce an I/O tool which is complex UI component (an
> enterprise in itself), which will work with the corpus, but will do through
> an additional top-down path, at that. So, inevitably, more formalisation
> would have to exist on top level w/r to the bottom level. I didn't see the
> specifications, but this in its turn presupposes some "sanitisation" of
> bottom level each time un-sanitised page is hit with new I/O tool. You may
> shudder now. :)


Yes. That's exactly why all this has taken many years. (When was a
WYSIWYG editor first proposed - five or six years ago?)


- d.

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