- Original Message -
From: Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com
A good document structure would allow useful editing for both simple
paragraphs and complex features like tables and templates even on such
primitive devices, by giving a dedicated editing interface the
information it needs to
Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com writes:
Just a brief comment: there's no need of seaching for a perfect wiki
syntax, since it exists: it's the present model of well formed markup, t.i.
xml.
And, from your answer, we can see that you mean “perfectly
understandable to parsers”, but sacrifices
Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Perhaps this is where we can cooperate more with other Wiki writers to
develop a common Wiki markup. From my brief perusal of efforts, it
looks like there is a community of developers involved in
http://www.wikicreole.org/ but MediaWiki involvement is lacking
On Jan 4, 2011 1:54 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 January 2011 21:39, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
If the web browsers of 1995 had had native HTML editing, I rather
suspect
there would never have been series-of-single-quotes to represent italics
and
bold...
...
On 04.01.2011 22:39, Brion Vibber wrote:
In order to have a visual editor or three, combined with a plain text
editor, combined with some fancy other editor we have yet to invent, you
will still need that specification that tells you what a valid wiki instance
is. This is the core data; only
- Original Message -
From: Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com
Requiring people to do all their document creation at this level is
like asking people to punch binary ASCII codes into cards by hand -- it's
low-level grunt work that computers can handle for us. We have
keyboards and monitors
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com
Requiring people to do all their document creation at this level is
like asking people to punch binary ASCII codes into cards by hand -- it's
low-level
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
Exactly my point -- spending time tinkering with
sortof-human-readable-but-not-powerful-enough syntax distracts from thinking
about what needs to be *described* in the data... which is the important
thing needed when devising
2011/1/4 Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com:
A good document structure would allow useful editing for both simple
paragraphs and complex features like tables and templates even on such
primitive devices, by giving a dedicated editing interface the information
it needs to address individual
* Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com [Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:39:28 -0800]:
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Dirk Riehle d...@riehle.org wrote:
Wikis started out as *very* lightly formatted plaintext. The point was
to be
fast and easy -- in the context of web browsers which only offered
plaintext
2011/1/4 Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com:
Indeed, Google Docs has an optimized editing UI for Android and iOS
that focuses precisely on making it easy to make a quick change to a
paragraph in a document or a cell in a spreadsheet (with concurrent
editing).
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