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. _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
