On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:32:11 +0300 "Alex-P. Natsios" <apnats...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 4. some kind of wiki documentation > Users rarely if ever touch wikis and Developers love NOT to go out of > their SCM and/or favorite text editor to edit some damn wiki. > ikiwiki is a wiki that supports both SVN and GIT as SCM backends for > developers with commit access to push their pages and OPENID for > outsiders to use and contribute with (and uses the latest craze known > as markdown for styling). > ( Yes shoot me it's Perl ... O:-) ) Markdown, like every other web markup language, is just as hard to use as basic HTML, while pretending to be easier for non geeks. I find that a WYSIWYG editor is easier for the masses to use. Also, the various implementations of specific markup languages tend to be less consistent than basic HTML, coz HTML is a standard, and the others are not. I have battled with trying to get various modules for a couple of markup languages to play nice together, and the result is both always screwed up when the modules disagree over what the markup means, and just plain harder to use. So on my website, the rule is "if you want to use a markup language, basic HTML works fine, otherwise use the WYSIWYG editor". You know what, only a couple of die hard geeks still insisted on using a markup language, no one else ever used it on the old version of the site. And each of those two people wanted a DIFFERENT markup language. Like I'm gonna go to much effort to support that. lol One popular markup language pretty much is HTML with angle brackets replaced by square brackets, and they call this "easier to use". I guess coz there's less use of the shift key? Pffft A developer wiki on the other hand, well us developers can just as easily learn and use basic HTML, and half of us probably know it already. No fuss, no mess, easy to implement, since everyone's web browser ALREADY KNOWS IT. On the other hand, my second preference is to use edje as markup, with a suitable edje to HTML converter. We all know it already. B-) -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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