2012/8/3 Jeff Hammel <[email protected]> > I would argue HTML is a good, or even great, backing format. It's what > mozilla does. It is a real standard. There are a plethora of tools to deal > with HTML documents. It is very malleable. There is a clear DOM > translation to its markup.
How is this compatible with the fact that earlier in this thread, it has been said that the fact that the HTML source of MDN pages was hard to translate to other markup languages, meaning that offering another markup editing option would be hard? Source formats should be easy to translate to other formats. HTML is mostly a final-form format, in this respect. HTML code generated by WYSIWYG editors even more so. Benoit > > That said, we know that there are people that prefer MediaWiki and we'll >>> see if we can find a way to let people use some kind of tool that lets >>> them >>> paste MediaWiki syntax in and get it automatically converted into HTML. >>> But >>> that's not going to happen right away, since there are still some more >>> fundamental site features we need to work on. >>> >>> I know this is frustrating to some people that prefer MediaWiki syntax, >>> and we'll see what we can do. I just can't make any promises, and >>> obviously >>> anything we do manage to do won't be the same as a raw MediaWiki setup. >>> >>> Even just minimal basic support for some mediawiki markup would make it >> more convenient for me to type documents in, than to have to type in HTML >> or use a WYSIWYG editor. >> >>> I'm surprised you hadn't heard of Kuma; we've been talking about it at >>> length for over a year, including posts to this very mailing list asking >>> for people to help us test it. This makes me feel sad since we worked so >>> hard to get the word out. :) >>> >>> Nah, I don't read mailing lists carefully enough and I don't contribute >> much to MDN, so this only speaks of my own ignorance. >> >> Thanks for taking care of MDN! >> Benoit >> >> >> >> Eric Shepherd >>> Developer Documentation Lead >>> Mozilla >>> http://www.bitstampede.com/ >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> dev-platform mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
